Ezekiel 16:15-26

15 “ ‘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.
16 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.[a]
17 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.
18 And you took your embroidered clothes to put on them, and you offered my oil and incense before them.
19 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.
20 “ ‘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?
21 You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.
22 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.
23 “ ‘Woe! Woe to you, declares the Sovereign LORD. In addition to all your other wickedness,
24 you built a mound for yourself and made a lofty shrine in every public square.
25 At every street corner you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty, spreading your legs with increasing promiscuity to anyone who passed by.
26 You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your neighbors with large genitals, and aroused my anger with your increasing promiscuity.

Cross References 23

  • 1. ver 25
  • 2. S Isaiah 57:8; S Jeremiah 2:20; Ezekiel 23:3; Ezekiel 27:3
  • 3. S Isaiah 57:7
  • 4. S 2 Kings 23:7
  • 5. S Ezekiel 7:20; Hosea 2:13
  • 6. S Jeremiah 44:5
  • 7. Hosea 2:8
  • 8. S Jeremiah 7:31
  • 9. Exodus 13:2
  • 10. Psalms 106:37-38; S Isaiah 57:5; Ezekiel 23:37
  • 11. S 2 Kings 17:17; S Jeremiah 19:5
  • 12. S Psalms 25:7; S Psalms 88:15; Jeremiah 2:2; Hosea 2:15; Hosea 11:1
  • 13. Hosea 2:3
  • 14. ver 6
  • 15. Ezekiel 24:6
  • 16. ver 31; Isaiah 57:7
  • 17. Psalms 78:58; S Jeremiah 2:20; Jeremiah 3:2; S Jeremiah 44:21; Ezekiel 20:28
  • 18. S Jeremiah 3:2
  • 19. ver 15; S Proverbs 9:14
  • 20. S Isaiah 23:17
  • 21. S Jeremiah 3:1
  • 22. S 1 Kings 14:9; S Ezekiel 8:17
  • 23. S Isaiah 57:8; Jeremiah 11:15; Ezekiel 20:8; Ezekiel 23:19-21

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.
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