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Ezekiel 16

Jerusalem is portrayed as an abandoned infant whom the LORD rescues, raises, adorns, and enters into covenant with, only for her to become an adulterous wife who uses God’s gifts in idolatry. After exposing her worse-than-Sodom and Samaria unfaithfulness, the LORD promises to remember His covenant and establish an everlasting covenant.

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Verses 1–5Jerusalem’s sinful origin is pictured as an abandoned newborn Verses 6–14The LORD gives Jerusalem life, enters covenant, and adorns her with beauty Verses 15–34Jerusalem trusts her beauty, commits spiritual whoredom, and gives God’s gifts to idols Verses 35–43Her lovers are gathered against her and judgment answers her abominations Verses 44–59Jerusalem is compared with Samaria and Sodom and shown to have broken covenant Verses 60–63The LORD promises to remember his covenant and establish an everlasting covenant

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1Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,2Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,3And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy…4And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast…5None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto…6And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted…7I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of…8Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee,…9Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed…10I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee…11I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets…12And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings…13Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy…14And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy…15But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst…16And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy…17Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold…18And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou…19My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and…20Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom…21That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to…22And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast…23And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe,…24That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place,…25Thou hast built thy high place at every head of…26Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours,…27Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee,…28Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because…29Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of…30How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing…31In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head…32But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers…33They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy…34And the contrary is in thee from other women in…35Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:36Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured…37Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom…38And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock…39And I will also give thee into their hand, and…40They shall also bring up a company against thee, and…41And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute…42So will I make my fury toward thee to rest,…43Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth,…44Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb…45Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and…46And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters…47Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done…48As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister…49Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride,…50And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore…51Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou…52Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own…53When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of…54That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be…55When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to…56For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth…57Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of…58Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the…59For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal…60Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the…61Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when…62And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou…63That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open…