Ezekiel 16:3-10

3 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.
4 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.
5 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.
6 “ ‘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!”[a]
7 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.
8 “ ‘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.
9 “ ‘I bathed you with water and washed the blood from you and put ointments on you.
10 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.

Cross References 15

  • 1. Genesis 11:25-29; Ezekiel 21:30
  • 2. S Genesis 12:18
  • 3. S Genesis 15:16
  • 4. ver 45; S Genesis 10:15; S Deuteronomy 7:1; Joshua 24:14-15
  • 5. Hosea 2:3
  • 6. ver 22; S Exodus 19:4; Ezekiel 18:23,32
  • 7. S Deuteronomy 1:10
  • 8. S Exodus 1:7
  • 9. Ruth 3:9
  • 10. ver 59; S Jeremiah 11:10; Malachi 2:14
  • 11. Jeremiah 2:2; Hos 2:7,19-20
  • 12. S Ruth 3:3
  • 13. S Exodus 26:36; S Isaiah 19:9
  • 14. Ezekiel 27:16
  • 15. ver 18; S Isaiah 3:23

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. A few Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts repeat "and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, “Live!”"
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