Search results for: Ezekiel 36:26–27

Ezekiel 16:5 (NIV)

No one looked on you with pity or had compassion enough to do any of these things for you. Rather, you were thrown out into the open field, for on the day you were born you were despised.

Ezekiel 16:6 (NIV)

“ ‘Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, “Live!”

Ezekiel 16:7 (NIV)

I made you grow like a plant of the field. You grew and developed and entered puberty. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, yet you were stark naked.

“ ‘Later I passed by, and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for love, I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your naked body. I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Sovereign Lord , and you became mine.

Ezekiel 16:9 (NIV)

“ ‘I bathed you with water and washed the blood from you and put ointments on you.

Ezekiel 16:10 (NIV)

I clothed you with an embroidered dress and put sandals of fine leather on you. I dressed you in fine linen and covered you with costly garments.

Ezekiel 16:11 (NIV)

I adorned you with jewelry: I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace around your neck,

Ezekiel 16:12 (NIV)

and I put a ring on your nose, earrings on your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

Ezekiel 16:13 (NIV)

So you were adorned with gold and silver; your clothes were of fine linen and costly fabric and embroidered cloth. Your food was honey, olive oil and the finest flour. You became very beautiful and rose to be a queen.

Ezekiel 16:14 (NIV)

And your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, because the splendor I had given you made your beauty perfect, declares the Sovereign Lord .

Ezekiel 16:15 (NIV)

“ ‘But you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to become a prostitute. You lavished your favors on anyone who passed by and your beauty became his.

Ezekiel 16:16 (NIV)

You took some of your garments to make gaudy high places, where you carried on your prostitution. You went to him, and he possessed your beauty.

Ezekiel 16:17 (NIV)

You also took the fine jewelry I gave you, the jewelry made of my gold and silver, and you made for yourself male idols and engaged in prostitution with them.

Ezekiel 16:18 (NIV)

And you took your embroidered clothes to put on them, and you offered my oil and incense before them.

Ezekiel 16:19 (NIV)

Also the food I provided for you—the flour, olive oil and honey I gave you to eat—you offered as fragrant incense before them. That is what happened, declares the Sovereign Lord .

Ezekiel 16:20 (NIV)

“ ‘And you took your sons and daughters whom you bore to me and sacrificed them as food to the idols. Was your prostitution not enough?

Ezekiel 16:21 (NIV)

You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.

Ezekiel 16:22 (NIV)

In all your detestable practices and your prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, kicking about in your blood.

Ezekiel 16:23 (NIV)

“ ‘Woe! Woe to you, declares the Sovereign Lord . In addition to all your other wickedness,

Ezekiel 16:24 (NIV)

you built a mound for yourself and made a lofty shrine in every public square.

Ezekiel 16:25 (NIV)

At every street corner you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty, spreading your legs with increasing promiscuity to anyone who passed by.

Ezekiel 16:30 (NIV)

“ ‘I am filled with fury against you, declares the Sovereign Lord , when you do all these things, acting like a brazen prostitute!

Ezekiel 16:31 (NIV)

When you built your mounds at every street corner and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were unlike a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

Ezekiel 16:32 (NIV)

“ ‘You adulterous wife! You prefer strangers to your own husband!

Ezekiel 16:33 (NIV)

All prostitutes receive gifts, but you give gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.