Chapter 16
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Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
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Daughter of woman, cause Jerusalem to know his abominations;
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and say, Thus says the Domina Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your birth and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was your mother, and your father was a Hittite.
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As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you; you weren't salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
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No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, for that your person was abhorred, in the day that you were born.
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When I passed by you, and saw you weltering in your blood, I said to you, Though you are] in your blood, live; yes, I said to you, [Though you are in your blood, live.
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I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament; your breasts were fashioned, and your hair was grown; yet you were naked and bare.
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Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Domina Yahweh, and you became mine.
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Then washed I you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.
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I clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you with sealskin, and I girded you about with fine linen, and covered you with silk.
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I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck.
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I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
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Thus you were decked with gold and silver; and your clothing was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you ate fine flour, and honey, and oil; and you were exceeding beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate.
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Your renown went forth among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you, says the Domina Yahweh.
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But you did trust in your beauty, and played the philanderer because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by; hers it was.
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You took of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors, and played the philanderer on them: the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so.
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You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of women, and played the philanderer with them;
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and you took your embroidered garments, and covered them, and did set my oil and my incense before them.
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My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you did even set it before them for a sweet savor; and thus it was, says the Domina Yahweh.
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Moreover you have taken your daughters and your sons, whom you have borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your prostitution a small matter,
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that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them?
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In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and was weltering in your blood.
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It is happen after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you! says the Domina Yahweh),
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that you have built to you a vaulted place, and have made you a lofty place in every street.
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You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.
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You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.
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See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary food, and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the sons of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.
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You have played the philanderer also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the philanderer with them, and yet you weren't satisfied.
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You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren't satisfied with this.
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How weak is your heart, says the Domina Yahweh, seeing you do all these things, the work of an impudent philanderer;
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in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a philanderer, in that you scorn pay.
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A husband who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of his wife!
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They give gifts to all philanderers; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.
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You are different from other men in your prostitution, in that none follows you to play the philanderer; and whereas you give hire, and no hire is given to you, therefore you are different.
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Therefore, philanderer, hear the word of Yahweh:
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Thus says the Domina Yahweh, Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them;
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therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
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I will judge you, as men who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
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I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places; and they shall strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels; and they shall leave you naked and bare.
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They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.
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They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many men; and I will cause you to cease from playing the philanderer, and you shall also give no hire any more.
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So will I cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from you, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
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Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head, says the Domina Yahweh: and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.
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Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, As is the father, so is his son.
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You are the son of your father, who loathes his wife and his children; and you are the brother of your brothers, who loathed their wives and their children: your father was a Hittite, and your mother an Amorite.
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Your elder brother is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, he and his sons; and your younger brother, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and his sons.
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Yet have you not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as if that were] a very little [thing, you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
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As I live, says the Domina Yahweh, Sodom your brother has not done, he nor his sons, as you have done, you and your sons.
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Behold, this was the iniquity of your brother Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in him and in his sons; neither did he strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
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They were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
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Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your brothers by all your abominations which you have done.
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You also, bear you your own shame, in that you have given judgment for your brothers; through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous that you: yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your brothers.
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I will turn again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and his sons, and the captivity of Samaria and his sons, and the captivity of your captives in the midst of them;
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that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.
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Your brothers, Sodom and his sons, shall return to their former estate; and Samaria and his sons shall return to their former estate; and you and your sons shall return to your former estate.
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For your brother Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,
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before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the sons of Syria, and of all who are round about him, the sons of the Philistines, who do despite to you round about.
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You have borne your lewdness and your abominations, says Yahweh.
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For thus says the Domina Yahweh: I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
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Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.
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Then shall you remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall receive your brothers, your elder brothers and your younger; and I will give them to you for sons, but not by your covenant.
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I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh;
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that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done, says the Domina Yahweh.