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Ezekiel 16:49 (NIV)
“ ‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
Ezekiel 16:4 (NIV)
On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.
Ezekiel 16:42 (NIV)
Then my wrath against you will subside and my jealous anger will turn away from you; I will be calm and no longer angry.
Ezekiel 16:43 (NIV)
“ ‘Because you did not remember the days of your youth but enraged me with all these things, I will surely bring down on your head what you have done, declares the Sovereign Lord . Did you not add lewdness to all your other detestable practices?
Ezekiel 16:44 (NIV)
“ ‘Everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: “Like mother, like daughter.”
Ezekiel 16:45 (NIV)
You are a true daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and her children; and you are a true sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
Ezekiel 16:48 (NIV)
As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord , your sister Sodom and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done.
Ezekiel 16:40 (NIV)
They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and hack you to pieces with their swords.
Ezekiel 16:41 (NIV)
They will burn down your houses and inflict punishment on you in the sight of many women. I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer pay your lovers.
Ezekiel 16:46 (NIV)
Your older sister was Samaria, who lived to the north of you with her daughters; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you with her daughters, was Sodom.
Ezekiel 16:47 (NIV)
You not only followed their ways and copied their detestable practices, but in all your ways you soon became more depraved than they.
Ezekiel 16:3 (NIV)
and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Jerusalem: Your ancestry and birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
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.
Ezekiel 16:8 (NIV)
“ ‘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.