And say, Thussaith the Lord GOD untoJerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
And as for thy nativity, in the day thouwastborn thy navel was not cut, neitherwastthouwashed in water to supplethee; thouwast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
None eye pitiedthee, to do any of theseuntothee, to havecompassionuponthee; but thouwastcast out in the openfield, to the loathing of thy person, in the day thatthouwastborn.
And when I passed by thee, and saw theepolluted in thine own blood, I saiduntotheewhenthouwast in thy blood, Live; yea, I saiduntotheewhenthouwast in thy blood, Live.
I havecausedthee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thouhastincreased and waxengreat, and thou art come to excellentornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thinehair is grown, whereasthouwastnaked and bare.
Now when I passed by thee, and lookeduponthee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirtoverthee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I swareuntothee, and enteredinto a covenantwiththee, saith the Lord GOD, and thoubecamestmine.
Thuswastthoudeckedwithgold and silver; and thy raiment was of finelinen, and silk, and broideredwork; thoudidst eat fineflour, and honey, and oil: and thouwastexceedingbeautiful, and thoudidstprosperinto a kingdom.
But thoudidsttrust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlotbecause of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one thatpassed by; his it was.
And of thy garmentsthoudidsttake, and deckedst thy highplaceswithdiverscolours, and playedst the harlotthereupon: the likethingsshall not come, neithershall it be so.
Thouhastalsotaken thy fairjewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had giventhee, and madest to thyselfimages of men, and didstcommitwhoredomwiththem,
My meatalsowhich I gavethee, fineflour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thouhasteven set it beforethem for a sweetsavour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.
Moreoverthouhasttaken thy sons and thy daughters, whomthouhastborneunto me, and thesehastthousacrificeduntothem to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a smallmatter,
And in all thineabominations and thy whoredomsthouhast not remembered the days of thy youth, whenthouwastnaked and bare, and wastpolluted in thy blood.
Thouhastbuilt thy highplace at everyhead of the way, and hastmade thy beauty to be abhorred, and hastopened thy feet to every one thatpassed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
Behold, therefore I havestretched out my handoverthee, and havediminishedthineordinaryfood, and deliveredtheeunto the will of themthathatethee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
In thatthoubuildestthineeminentplace in the head of every way, and makestthinehighplace in everystreet; and hast not been as an harlot, in thatthouscornesthire;
And the contrary is in theefromotherwomen in thy whoredoms, whereasnonefolloweththee to commitwhoredoms: and in thatthougivest a reward, and no reward is givenuntothee, thereforethou art contrary.
Thussaith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakednessdiscoveredthrough thy whoredomswith thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, whichthoudidstgiveuntothem;
Behold, therefore I willgather all thy lovers, withwhomthouhasttakenpleasure, and all themthatthouhastloved, with all themthatthouhasthated; I willevengatherthemroundaboutagainstthee, and willdiscover thy nakednessuntothem, thatthey may see all thy nakedness.
And I willalsogivetheeintotheirhand, and theyshallthrowdownthineeminentplace, and shallbreakdown thy highplaces: theyshallstriptheealso of thy clothes, and shalltake thy fairjewels, and leavetheenaked and bare.
And theyshallburnthinehouseswithfire, and executejudgmentsuponthee in the sight of manywomen: and I willcausethee to ceasefromplaying the harlot, and thoualsoshaltgive no hire any more.
Becausethouhast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hastfretted me in all thesethings; behold, therefore I alsowillrecompense thy way uponthinehead, saith the Lord GOD: and thoushalt not committhislewdnessabove all thineabominations.
Thou art thy mother’sdaughter, thatloatheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, whichloathedtheirhusbands and theirchildren: yourmother was an Hittite, and yourfather an Amorite.
And thineeldersister is Samaria, she and her daughtersthatdwell at thy lefthand: and thy youngersister, thatdwelleth at thy righthand, is Sodom and her daughters.
Yet hastthou not walkedaftertheirways, nor doneaftertheirabominations: but, as if thatwere a verylittlething, thouwastcorruptedmorethanthey in all thy ways.
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sisterSodom, 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.
NeitherhathSamariacommittedhalf of thy sins; but thouhastmultipliedthineabominationsmorethanthey, and hastjustified thy sisters in all thineabominationswhichthouhastdone.
Thoualso, whichhastjudged thy sisters, bearthine own shame for thy sinsthatthouhastcommittedmoreabominablethanthey: they are morerighteousthanthou: yea, be thouconfoundedalso, and bear thy shame, in thatthouhastjustified thy sisters.
When I shallbringagaintheircaptivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, thenwill I bringagain the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:
When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shallreturn to theirformerestate, and Samaria and her daughtersshallreturn to theirformerestate, thenthou and thy daughtersshallreturn to yourformerestate.
Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are roundabout her, the daughters of the Philistines, whichdespisetheeroundabout.
Thenthoushaltremember thy ways, and be ashamed, whenthoushaltreceive thy sisters, thineelder and thy younger: and I willgivethemuntothee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
Thatthoumayestremember, and be confounded, and neveropen thy mouth any morebecause of thy shame, when I am pacifiedtowardthee for all thatthouhastdone, saith the Lord GOD.