1 The word of the LORD came to me: 2 "Son of man, confront Jerusalem about her abominations; 3 and say, 'This is what the sovereign LORD says to Jerusalem: Your birth and your nativity were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite, and your mother was a Hittite. 4 As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, neither were you washed in water to clean you up; you were not rubbed with salt, or wrapped in blankets. 5 No eye had pity on you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were dumped in an open field, for you were detested on the day that you were born. 6 When I passed by you, and saw you thrashing around in your own blood, I said to you as you lay in your own blood, "Live." Yes, I said to you as you lay in your own blood, "Live." 7 I made you to grow like a plant in the field. You grew tall and matured like a perfect jewel; your breasts developed, and your hair grew; yet you were naked and bare. 8 Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, I saw you were of age for love; and I spread my cloak over you, and covered your nakedness. I pledged myself to you, and entered into a marriage covenant with you, says the sovereign LORD, and you became mine. 9 Then I bathed you with water; I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil. 10 I clothed you with embroidered cloth and fine leather sandals, and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk. 11 I adorned you with jewelry, and put bracelets upon your hands, and a chain around your neck. 12 I put a ring in your nose, and ear-rings in your ears, and a beautiful tiara on your head. 13 You were adorned with gold and silver; and your garment was made of fine linen, silk, and embroidered work. You ate choice flour, honey, and olive oil. You were stunningly beautiful, and you rose to a position of royalty. 14 Your fame spread among the nations because of your beauty; for it was perfect because of the splendor I had clothed you with, says the sovereign LORD. 15 But you trusted in your own beauty, and played the whore because of your fame. You lavished your sexual favors on everyone who passed by, your beauty became his. 16 You took some of your garments, and made for yourself high places decorated with all sorts of colors, and on them you played the prostitute. Nothing like it has ever been nor ever should be. 17 You also took your exquisite jewelry of my gold and silver, which I had given you, and made images of men for yourself, and engaged in prostitution with them. 18 You used your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and incense before them. 19 My bread also which I gave you, choice flour, olive oil, and honey, by which I fed you, you set it before them for a sweet aroma. So that's what happened, says the sovereign LORD. 20 Then you took your sons and daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to be consumed by idols. Were your whoredoms not bad enough? 21 You slaughtered my children, and offered them up by sacrificing them to idols. 22 And in all your abominations and your prostitutions you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and thrashing around in your own blood. 23 after all your wickedness. Woe! Woe to you! Says the sovereign LORD, 24 you built yourself a shrine, and have made a high place in every public square. 25 You built your high place at the head of every street, and have made your beauty an abomination, you spread your legs to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your whoring. 26 You have committed prostitution with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and have multiplied your promiscuity to provoke me to anger. 27 Therefore, I have stretched out my hand against you, and have reduced your food, and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, and even they were ashamed of your lewd behavior. 28 You played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; even after you had played the prostitute with them, you still were not satisfied. 29 You have multiplied your whoredom with the land of merchants, Chaldea; and yet even then you were not satisfied. 30 How sick is your heart, says the sovereign LORD, seeing you do all these things, the work of a shameless prostitute, 31 building your shrines at the head of every street, and making your high places in every square, and have not even been like a whore, because you scorn being paid. 32 A wife that commits adultery! You prefer strangers instead of your husband! 33 All prostitutes get gifts; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them to come to you from everywhere for your sexual favors. 34 So you are different from other women in your prostitution for no one solicits you. You pay and no payment is given to you, so you are different. 35 Wherefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD! 36 This is what the sovereign LORD says: Because your lust was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your promiscuity with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and because of the blood of your children that you sacrificed to them, 37 therefore, I will gather all your lovers with whom you have had pleasure, and all them you have loved, with all those who you hated; I will gather them against you on every side, and they will expose your nakedness in front of them, so that they may all see your nakedness. 38 I will judge you as women that commit adultery and shed blood are judged; and I will cover you with blood in wrath and jealousy. 39 I will also give you into their hands, and they will throw down your shrines and break down your high places; and they will strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewelry; and they will leave you naked and bare. 40 They will also gather a mob against you, and they will stone you, and hack you into pieces with their swords. 41 They will burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. I will force you to stop playing the harlot, and you will no longer make payments to your lovers. 42 So will I cause my rage toward you to rest, and my jealousy will turn from you, and I will be calm, and will be angry no more. 43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me in all these things; therefore, I also will bring what you have done back upon your head, says the sovereign LORD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your abominations? 44 Everyone that uses proverbs will quote this proverb about you, saying, "Like mother, like daughter." 45 You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. 46 Your older sister is Samaria, who lived north of you with her daughters; and your younger sister, that lives to your south is Sodom with her daughters. 47 Yet you have not only walked in their ways and copied their abominations but in a short time you have become more corrupt than they in all your ways. 48 As I live, says the sovereign LORD, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. 49 Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excessive food, and prosperous ease; but she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 50 They were haughty, and committed abominations before me. Therefore I removed them as I saw fit. 51 Samaria never committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they ever did. You have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations you have done. 52 Bear your own shame, in that you have been the justification of your sisters; because your sins that you have committed are even more abominable than theirs. They are more righteous that you are. Be ashamed, and bear your shame, for you have justified your sisters. 53 But I will restore the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and the fortunes of your captives along with theirs; 54 then you may bear your own disgrace, and be ashamed because of all that you have done, becoming a comfort to them. 55 For your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will return to their former state; and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former state; and you and your daughters will return to your former state. 56 For your sister Sodom was a contemptuous byword in your mouth in the day of your pride, 57 before your wickedness was exposed. Now you are the object of mockery from the daughters of Aram and all her neighbors and the daughters of the Philistines--those all around you who despise you. 58 You bear the penalty of your lewdness and abominations, says the LORD. 59 For this is what the sovereign LORD says: I will also deal with you according to what you have done, you who have despised your vow by breaking the covenant. 60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you. 61 Then you will remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you receive your sisters, your elder and younger sisters. I will give them to you for daughters, even though this was not part of my covenant with you. 62 I will establish my covenant with you; then you will know that I am the LORD. 63 You will remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you for all that you have done, says the sovereign LORD.'" "