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Ezekiel 16 (WEBP)

[1] Again Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
[2] “Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;
[3] and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.
[4] As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut. You weren’t washed in water to cleanse you. You weren’t salted at all, nor wrapped in blankets at all.
[5] 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, because you were abhorred in the day that you were born.
[6] “ ‘ “When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing 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!’
[7] I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent beauty. Your breasts were formed, and your hair grew; yet you were naked and bare.
[8] “ ‘ “Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my garment over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I pledged myself to you and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.
[9] “ ‘ “Then I washed you with water. Yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.
[10] I clothed you also with embroidered work and put leather sandals on you. I dressed you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
[11] I decked you with ornaments, put bracelets on your hands, and put a chain on your neck.
[12] I put a ring on your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
[13] Thus you were decked with gold and silver. Your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered work. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate.
[14] Your renown went out among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.
[15] “ ‘ “But you trusted in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by. It was his.
[16] You took some of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them. This shouldn’t happen, neither shall it be.
[17] You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them.
[18] You took your embroidered garments, covered them, and set my oil and my incense before them.
[19] My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you even set it before them for a pleasant aroma; and so it was,” says the Lord Yahweh.
[20] “ ‘ “Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter,
[21] that you have slain my children and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them?
[22] In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were wallowing in your blood.
[23] “ ‘ “It has happened after all your wickedness—woe, woe to you!” says the Lord Yahweh—
[24] “that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street.
[25] 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.
[26] You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.
[27] See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your portion, and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.
[28] You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute with them, and yet you weren’t satisfied.
[29] You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren’t satisfied with this.
[30] “ ‘ “How weak is your heart,” says the Lord Yahweh, “since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;
[31] 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 prostitute, in that you scorn pay.
[32] “ ‘ “Adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!
[33] People give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.
[34] You are different from other women in your prostitution, in that no one follows you to play the prostitute; and whereas you give hire, and no hire is given to you, therefore you are different.” ’
[35] “Therefore, prostitute, hear Yahweh’s word:
[36] ‘The Lord Yahweh says, “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;
[37] therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those whom you have loved, with all those whom 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.
[38] I will judge you as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
[39] I will also give you into their hand, and they will throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places. They will strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewels. They will leave you naked and bare.
[40] They will also bring up a company against you, and they will stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.
[41] They will burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you will also give no hire any more.
[42] So I will cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy will depart from you. I will be quiet, and will not be angry any more.
[43] “ ‘ “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 Lord Yahweh: “and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.
[44] “ ‘ “Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you, saying, ‘As is the mother, so is her daughter.’
[45] You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
[46] Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom with her daughters.
[47] Yet you have not walked in their ways, nor done their abominations; but soon you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
[48] As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.
[49] “ ‘ “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
[50] They were arrogant and committed abomination before me. Therefore I took them away when I saw it.
[51] Samaria hasn’t committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all your abominations which you have done.
[52] You also bear your own shame yourself, in that you have given judgment for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous than you. Yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.
[53] “ ‘ “I will reverse their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of your captives among them;
[54] 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.
[55] Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will return to their former estate; and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former estate; and you and your daughters will return to your former estate.
[56] For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,
[57] before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who are around her, the daughters of the Philistines, who despise you all around.
[58] You have borne your lewdness and your abominations,” says Yahweh.
[59] “ ‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
[60] Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
[61] Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, your elder sisters and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.
[62] I will establish my covenant with you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh;
[63] 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 Lord Yahweh.’ ”

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Ezekiel 16 (KJVS)

[1] Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying (),
[2] Son of man , cause Jerusalem to know () her abominations ,
[3] And say (), Thus saith () the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem ; Thy birth and thy nativity [is] of the land of Canaan ; thy father [was] an Amorite , and thy mother an Hittite .
[4] And [as for] thy nativity , in the day thou wast born () thy navel was not cut (), neither wast thou washed () in water to supple [thee]; thou wast not salted () at all (), nor swaddled () at all ().
[5] None eye pitied () thee, to do () any of these unto thee, to have compassion () upon thee; but thou wast cast out () in the open field , to the lothing of thy person , in the day that thou wast born ().
[6] And when I passed () by thee, and saw () thee polluted () in thine own blood , I said () unto thee [when thou wast] in thy blood , Live (); yea, I said () unto thee [when thou wast] in thy blood , Live ().
[7] I have caused () thee to multiply as the bud of the field , and thou hast increased () and waxen great (), and thou art come () to excellent ornaments : [thy] breasts are fashioned (), and thine hair is grown (), whereas thou [wast] naked and bare .
[8] Now when I passed () by thee, and looked () upon thee, behold, thy time [was] the time of love ; and I spread () my skirt over thee, and covered () thy nakedness : yea, I sware () unto thee, and entered () into a covenant with thee, saith () the Lord GOD , and thou becamest mine.
[9] Then washed () I thee with water ; yea, I throughly washed away () thy blood from thee, and I anointed () thee with oil .
[10] I clothed () thee also with broidered work , and shod () thee with badgers’ skin , and I girded () thee about with fine linen , and I covered () thee with silk .
[11] I decked () thee also with ornaments , and I put () bracelets upon thy hands , and a chain on thy neck .
[12] And I put () a jewel on thy forehead , and earrings in thine ears , and a beautiful crown upon thine head .
[13] Thus wast thou decked () with gold and silver ; and thy raiment [was of] fine linen () , and silk , and broidered work ; thou didst eat () fine flour , and honey , and oil : and thou wast exceeding beautiful (), and thou didst prosper () into a kingdom .
[14] And thy renown went forth () among the heathen for thy beauty : for it [was] perfect through my comeliness , which I had put () upon thee, saith () the Lord GOD .
[15] But thou didst trust () in thine own beauty , and playedst the harlot () because of thy renown , and pouredst out () thy fornications on every one that passed by (); his it was.
[16] And of thy garments thou didst take (), and deckedst () thy high places with divers colours (), and playedst the harlot () thereupon: [the like things] shall not come (), neither shall it be [so].
[17] Thou hast also taken () thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver , which I had given () thee, and madest () to thyself images of men , and didst commit whoredom () with them,
[18] And tookest () thy broidered garments , and coveredst () them: and thou hast set () mine oil and mine incense before them.
[19] My meat also which I gave () thee, fine flour , and oil , and honey , [wherewith] I fed () thee, thou hast even set () it before them for a sweet savour : and [thus] it was, saith () the Lord GOD .
[20] Moreover thou hast taken () thy sons and thy daughters , whom thou hast borne () unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed () unto them to be devoured (). [Is this] of thy whoredoms a small matter ,
[21] That thou hast slain () my children , and delivered () them to cause them to pass through () [the fire] for them?
[22] And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered () the days of thy youth , when thou wast naked and bare , [and] wast polluted () in thy blood .
[23] And it came to pass after all thy wickedness , (woe , woe unto thee! saith () the Lord GOD ;)
[24] [That] thou hast also built () unto thee an eminent place , and hast made () thee an high place in every street .
[25] Thou hast built () thy high place at every head of the way , and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred (), and hast opened () thy feet to every one that passed by (), and multiplied () thy whoredoms .
[26] Thou hast also committed fornication () with the Egyptians thy neighbours , great of flesh ; and hast increased () thy whoredoms , to provoke me to anger ().
[27] Behold, therefore I have stretched out () my hand over thee, and have diminished () thine ordinary [food], and delivered () thee unto the will of them that hate () thee, the daughters of the Philistines , which are ashamed () of thy lewd way .
[28] Thou hast played the whore () also with the Assyrians , because thou wast unsatiable (); yea, thou hast played the harlot () with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied .
[29] Thou hast moreover multiplied () thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea ; and yet thou wast not satisfied () herewith .
[30] How weak () is thine heart , saith () the Lord GOD , seeing thou doest () all these [things], the work of an imperious whorish () woman ;
[31] In that thou buildest () thine eminent place in the head of every way , and makest () thine high place in every street ; and hast not been as an harlot (), in that thou scornest () hire ;
[32] [But as] a wife that committeth adultery (), [which] taketh () strangers () instead of her husband !
[33] They give () gifts to all whores (): but thou givest () thy gifts to all thy lovers (), and hirest () them, that they may come () unto thee on every side for thy whoredom .
[34] And the contrary is in thee from [other] women in thy whoredoms , whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms (): and in that thou givest () a reward , and no reward is given () unto thee, therefore thou art () contrary .
[35] Wherefore, O harlot (), hear () the word of the LORD :
[36] Thus saith () the Lord GOD ; Because thy filthiness was poured out (), and thy nakedness discovered () through thy whoredoms with thy lovers (), and with all the idols of thy abominations , and by the blood of thy children , which thou didst give () unto them;
[37] Behold, therefore I will gather () all thy lovers (), with whom thou hast taken pleasure (), and all [them] that thou hast loved (), with all [them] that thou hast hated (); I will even gather () them round about against thee, and will discover () thy nakedness unto them, that they may see () all thy nakedness .
[38] And I will judge () thee, as women that break wedlock () and shed () blood are judged ; and I will give () thee blood in fury and jealousy .
[39] And I will also give () thee into their hand , and they shall throw down () thine eminent place , and shall break down () thy high places : they shall strip () thee also of thy clothes , and shall take () thy fair jewels , and leave () thee naked and bare .
[40] They shall also bring up () a company against thee, and they shall stone () thee with stones , and thrust thee through () with their swords .
[41] And they shall burn () thine houses with fire , and execute () judgments upon thee in the sight of many women : and I will cause thee to cease () from playing the harlot (), and thou also shalt give () no hire any more.
[42] So will I make my fury toward thee to rest (), and my jealousy shall depart () from thee, and I will be quiet (), and will be no more angry ().
[43] Because thou hast not remembered () the days of thy youth , but hast fretted () me in all these [things]; behold , therefore I also will recompense () thy way upon [thine] head , saith () the Lord GOD : and thou shalt not commit () this lewdness above all thine abominations .
[44] Behold, every one that useth proverbs () shall use [this] proverb () against thee, saying (), As [is] the mother , [so is] her daughter .
[45] Thou [art] thy mother’s daughter , that lotheth () her husband and her children ; and thou [art] the sister of thy sisters , which lothed () their husbands and their children : your mother [was] an Hittite , and your father an Amorite .
[46] And thine elder sister [is] Samaria , she and her daughters that dwell () at thy left hand : and thy younger sister , that dwelleth () at thy right hand , [is] Sodom and her daughters .
[47] Yet hast thou not walked () after their ways , nor done () after their abominations : but, as [if that were] a very little () [thing], thou wast corrupted () more than they in all thy ways .
[48] [As] I live , saith () the Lord GOD , Sodom thy sister hath not done (), she nor her daughters , as thou hast done (), thou and thy daughters .
[49] Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom , pride , fulness of bread , and abundance of idleness () was in her and in her daughters , neither did she strengthen () the hand of the poor and needy .
[50] And they were haughty (), and committed () abomination before me: therefore I took them away () as I saw () [good].
[51] Neither hath Samaria committed () half of thy sins ; but thou hast multiplied () thine abominations more than they , and hast justified () thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done ().
[52] Thou also, which hast judged () thy sisters , bear () thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable () than they : they are more righteous () than thou: yea, be thou confounded () also, and bear () thy shame , in that thou hast justified () thy sisters .
[53] When I shall bring again () their captivity () , the captivity () of Sodom and her daughters , and the captivity () of Samaria and her daughters , then [will I bring again] the captivity () of thy captives in the midst of them:
[54] That thou mayest bear () thine own shame , and mayest be confounded () in all that thou hast done (), in that thou art a comfort () unto them.
[55] When thy sisters , Sodom and her daughters , shall return () to their former estate , and Samaria and her daughters shall return () to their former estate , then thou and thy daughters shall return () to your former estate .
[56] For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride ,
[57] Before thy wickedness was discovered (), as at the time of [thy] reproach of the daughters of Syria , and all [that are] round about her, the daughters of the Philistines , which despise () thee round about .
[58] Thou hast borne () thy lewdness and thine abominations , saith () the LORD .
[59] For thus saith () the Lord GOD ; I will even deal () with thee as thou hast done (), which hast despised () the oath in breaking () the covenant .
[60] Nevertheless I will remember () my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth , and I will establish () unto thee an everlasting covenant .
[61] Then thou shalt remember () thy ways , and be ashamed (), when thou shalt receive () thy sisters , thine elder and thy younger : and I will give () them unto thee for daughters , but not by thy covenant .
[62] And I will establish () my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know () that I [am] the LORD :
[63] That thou mayest remember (), and be confounded (), and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame , when I am pacified () toward thee for all that thou hast done (), saith () the Lord GOD .

Young’s Literal Translation

Ezekiel 16 (YLT)

[1] And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,
[2] ‘Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, and thou hast said:
[3] Thus said the Lord Jehovah to Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity Are of the land of the Canaanite, Thy father the Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite.
[4] As to thy nativity, in the day thou wast born, Thou-thy navel hath not been cut, And in water thou wast not washed for ease, And thou hast not been salted at all, And thou hast not been swaddled at all.
[5] No eye hath had pity on thee, to do to thee any of these, To have compassion on thee, And thou art cast on the face of the field, With loathing of thy person. In the day thou hast been born-thou!
[6] And I do pass over by thee, And I see thee trodden down in thy blood, And I say to thee in thy blood, Live, And I say to thee in thy blood, Live.
[7] A myriad-as the shoot of the field I have made thee, And thou art multiplied, and art great, And comest in with an excellent adornment, Breasts have been formed, and thy hair hath grown- And thou, naked and bare!
[8] And I pass over by thee, and I see thee, And lo, thy time is a time of loves, And I spread My skirt over thee, And I cover thy nakedness, And I swear to thee, and come in to a covenant with thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And thou dost become Mine.
[9] And I do wash thee with water, And I wash away thy blood from off thee, And I anoint thee with perfume.
[10] And I clothe thee with embroidery, And I shoe thee with badger’s skin, And I gird thee with fine linen, And I cover thee with figured silk.
[11] And I adorn thee with adornments, And I give bracelets for thy hands, And a chain for thy neck.
[12] And I give a ring for thy nose, And rings for thine ears, And a crown of beauty on thy head.
[13] And thou dost put on gold and silver, And thy clothing is fine linen, And figured silk and embroidery, Fine flour, and honey, and oil thou hast eaten, And thou art very very beautiful, And dost go prosperously to the kingdom.
[14] And go forth doth thy name among nations, Because of thy beauty-for it is complete, In My honour that I have set upon thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.
[15] And thou dost trust in thy beauty, And goest a-whoring because of thy renown, And dost pour out thy whoredoms On every passer by-to him it is.
[16] And thou dost take of thy garments, And dost make to thee spotted high-places, And dost go a-whoring upon them, They are not coming in-nor shall it be!
[17] And thou dost take thy beauteous vessels Of My gold and My silver that I gave to thee, And dost make to thee images of a male, And dost go a-whoring with them,
[18] And dost take the garments of thy embroidery, And thou dost cover them, And My oil and My perfume thou hast set before them.
[19] And My bread, that I gave to thee, Fine flour, and oil, and honey, that I caused thee to eat. Thou hast even set it before them, For a sweet fragrance-thus it is, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.
[20] And thou dost take thy sons and thy daughters Whom thou hast born to Me, And dost sacrifice them to them for food. Is it a little thing because of thy whoredoms,
[21] That thou dost slaughter My sons, And dost give them up in causing them to pass over to them?
[22] And with all thine abominations and thy whoredoms, Thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, When thou wast naked and bare, Trodden down in thy blood thou wast!
[23] And it cometh to pass, after all thy wickedness, (Woe, woe, to thee-an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah),
[24] That thou dost build to thee an arch, And dost make to thee a high place in every broad place.
[25] At every head of the way thou hast built thy high place, And thou dost make thy beauty abominable, And dost open wide thy feet to every passer by, And dost multiply thy whoredoms,
[26] And dost go a-whoring unto sons of Egypt, Thy neighbours-great of appetite! And thou dost multiply thy whoredoms, To provoke Me to anger.
[27] And lo, I have stretched out My hand against thee, And I diminish thy portion, And give thee to the desire of those hating thee, The daughters of the Philistines, Who are ashamed of thy wicked way.
[28] And thou goest a-whoring unto sons of Asshur, Without thy being satisfied, And thou dost go a-whoring with them, And also-thou hast not been satisfied.
[29] And thou dost multiply thy whoredoms On the land of Canaan-toward Chaldea, And even with this thou hast not been satisfied.
[30] How weak is thy heart, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, In thy doing all these, The work of a domineering whorish woman.
[31] In thy building thine arch at the head of every way, Thy high place thou hast made in every broad place, And-hast not been as a whore deriding a gift.
[32] The wife who committeth adultery- Under her husband-doth receive strangers.
[33] To all whores they give a gift, And-thou hast given thy gifts to all thy lovers, And dost bribe them to come in unto thee, From round about-in thy whoredoms.
[34] And the contrary is in thee from women in thy whoredoms, That after thee none doth go a-whoring; And in thy giving a gift, And a gift hath not been given to thee; And thou art become contrary.
[35] Therefore, O whore, hear a word of Jehovah,
[36] Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of thy brass being poured forth, And thy nakedness is revealed in thy whoredoms near thy lovers, And near all the idols of thy abominations, And according to the blood of thy sons, Whom thou hast given to them;
[37] Therefore, lo, I am assembling all thy lovers, To whom thou hast been sweet, And all whom thou hast loved, Besides all whom thou hast hated; And I have assembled them by thee round about, And have revealed thy nakedness to them, And they have seen all thy nakedness.
[38] And I have judged thee-judgments of adulteresses, And of women shedding blood, And have given thee blood, fury, and jealousy.
[39] And I have given thee into their hand, And they have thrown down thine arch, And they have broken down thy high places, And they have stript thee of thy garments, And they have taken thy beauteous vessels, And they have left thee naked and bare.
[40] And have caused an assembly to come up against thee, And stoned thee with stones, And thrust thee through with their swords,
[41] And burnt thy houses with fire, And done in thee judgments before the eyes of many women, And I have caused thee to cease from going a-whoring, And also a gift thou givest no more.
[42] And I have caused My fury against thee to rest, And My jealousy hath turned aside from thee, And I have been quiet, and I am not angry any more.
[43] Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, And dost give trouble to Me in all these, Lo, even I also thy way at first gave up, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I did not this thought for all thine abominations.
[44] Lo, every one using a simile, Doth use a simile concerning thee, saying: As the mother-her daughter!
[45] Thy mother’s daughter thou art, Loathing her husband and her sons, And thy sisters’ sister thou art, Who loathed their husbands and their sons, Your mother is a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
[46] And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters, Who is dwelling at thy left hand, And thy younger sister, who is dwelling on thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
[47] And-in their ways thou hast not walked, And according to their abominations done, As a little thing it hath been loathed, And thou dost more corruptly than they in all thy ways.
[48] I live-an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Sodom thy sister hath not done-she and her daughters- As thou hast done-thou and thy daughters.
[49] Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened.
[50] And they are haughty and do abomination before Me, And I turn them aside when I have seen.
[51] As to Samaria, as the half of thy sins-she hath not sinned, And thou dost multiply thine abominations more than they, And dost justify thy sisters by all thy abominations that thou hast done.
[52] Thou also-bear thy shame, That thou hast adjudged to thy sisters, Because of thy sins that thou hast done more abominably than they, They are more righteous than thou, And thou, also, be ashamed and bear thy shame, In thy justifying thy sisters.
[53] And I have turned back to their captivity, The captivity of Sodom and her daughters, And the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, And the captivity of thy captives in their midst,
[54] So that thou dost bear thy shame, And hast been ashamed of all that thou hast done, In thy comforting them.
[55] And thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, Do turn back to their former state, And Samaria and her daughters Do turn back to their former state, And thou and thy daughters do turn back to your former state.
[56] And thy sister Sodom hath not been for a report in thy mouth, In the day of thine arrogancy,
[57] Before thy wickedness is revealed, As at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Aram, And of all her neighbours, the daughters of the Philistines, Who are despising thee round about.
[58] Thy devices and thine abominations, Thou hast borne them, an affirmation of Jehovah.
[59] For thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have dealt with thee as thou hast done, In that thou hast despised an oath-to break covenant.
[60] And I-I have remembered My covenant with thee, In the days of thy youth, And I have established for thee a covenant age-during.
[61] And thou hast remembered thy ways, And thou hast been ashamed, In thy receiving thy sisters- Thine elder with thy younger, And I have given them to thee for daughters, And not by thy covenant.
[62] And I-I have established My covenant with thee, And thou hast known that I am Jehovah.
[63] So that thou dost remember, And thou hast been ashamed, And there is not to thee any more an opening of the mouth because of thy shame, In My receiving atonement for thee, For all that thou hast done, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!’