Ezekiel 16:1-3

New Century Version

The Lord’s Kindness to Jerusalem

16 The Lord spoke his word to me, saying: ² “Human, tell Jerusalem about her hateful actions. ³ Say, ‘This is what the Lord God says to Jerusalem: Your beginnings and your ancestors were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite, and your mother was a Hittite.