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and say, 'Thussays the LordGOD to Jerusalem, "Your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite, your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
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"As for your birth, on the day you were born your navelcord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you were not rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths.
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"Noeyelooked with pity on you to doany of thesethings for you, to havecompassion on you. Rather you were thrown out into the openfield, for you were abhorred on the day you were born.
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"When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you while you were in your blood, 'Live!' Yes, I said to you while you were in your blood, 'Live!'
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"I made you numerous like plants of the field. Then you grew up, becametall and reached the age for fineornaments; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Yet you were naked and bare.
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"Then I passed by you and saw you, and behold, you were at the time for love; so I spread My skirtover you and covered your nakedness. I also swore to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became Mine," declares the LordGOD.
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"Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your dress was of finelinen, silk and embroideredcloth. You atefineflour, honey and oil; so you were exceedinglybeautiful and advanced to royalty.
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"Then your famewentforth among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My splendorwhich I bestowed on you," declares the LordGOD.
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"But you trusted in your beauty and played the harlotbecause of your fame, and you poured out your harlotries on everypasser-by who might be willing.
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"You also took your beautifuljewels made of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself maleimages that you might play the harlot with them.
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"Also My breadwhich I gave you, fineflour, oil and honey with which I fed you, you would offerbefore them for a soothingaroma; so it happened," declares the LordGOD.
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"Moreover, you took your sons and daughterswhom you had borne to Me and sacrificed them to idols to be devoured. Were your harlotriessosmall a matter?
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"You built yourself a highplace at the top of everystreet and made your beautyabominable, and you spread your legs to everypasser-by to multiply your harlotry.
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"Behold now, I have stretched out My handagainst you and diminished your rations. And I delivered you up to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewdconduct.
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"Thus you are different from those women in your harlotries, in that no one plays the harlot as you do, because you givemoney and nomoney is given you; thus you are different."
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Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD.
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Thussays the LordGOD, "Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakednessuncovered through your harlotries with your lovers and with all your detestableidols, and because of the blood of your sonswhich you gave to idols,
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therefore, behold, I will gatherall your lovers with whom you tookpleasure, even all those whom you loved and all those whom you hated. So I will gather them against you from everydirection and expose your nakedness to them that they may seeall your nakedness.
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"I will also give you into the hands of your lovers, and they will teardown your shrines, demolish your highplaces, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels*, and will leave you naked and bare.
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"They will burn your houses with fire and executejudgments on you in the sight of manywomen. Then I will stop you from playing the harlot, and you will alsonolongerpay your lovers.
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"Because* you have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged Me by allthesethings, behold, I in turn will bring your conductdown on your own head," declares the LordGOD, "so that you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other abominations.
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"You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You are also the sister of your sisters, wholoathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
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"Now your oldersister is Samaria, who livesnorth of you with her daughters; and your youngersister, who livessouth of you, is Sodom with her daughters.
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"Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were toolittle, you actedmorecorruptly in all your conductthan they.
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"Behold, this was the guilt of your sisterSodom: she and her daughtershadarrogance, abundantfood and carelessease, but she did not help* the poor and needy.
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"Furthermore, Samaria did not commithalf of your sins, for you have multiplied your abominationsmorethan they. Thus you have made your sisters appear righteous by all your abominationswhich you have committed.
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"Alsobear your disgrace in that you have madejudgmentfavorable for your sisters. Because of your sins in which you actedmoreabominablythan they, they are more in the rightthan you. Yes, be alsoashamed and bear your disgrace, in that you made your sisters appear righteous.
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"Nevertheless, I will restore their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and along with them your owncaptivity,
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"Your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to their formerstate, and you with your daughters will also return to your formerstate.
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before your wickedness was uncovered, sonow you have become the reproach of the daughters of Edom and of all who are around her, of the daughters of the Philistines -those surrounding you who despise you.
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"Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both your older and your younger; and I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant.
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so that you may remember and be ashamed and neveropen your mouthanymorebecause* of your humiliation, when I have forgiven you for all that you have done," the LordGODdeclares.