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on? Instead, it is thrown into the fire for fuel; 9 “Then I washed you in water; yes, I thor-
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the fire devours both ends of it, and its middle oughly washed off your blood, and I anointed
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is burned. Is it useful for any work? Indeed, you with oil. I clothed you in embroidered
when it was whole, no object could be made cloth and gave you sandals of badger skin; I
from it. How much less will it be useful for any clothed you with fine linen and covered you
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work when the fire has devoured it, and it is with silk. I adorned you with ornaments, put
burned? bracelets on your wrists, and a chain on your
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6 “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Like neck. And I put a jewel in your nose, earrings
the wood of the vine among the trees of the in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your
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forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, head. Thus you were adorned with gold and sil-
so I will give up the inhabitants of Jerusalem; ver, and your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and
7 and I will set My face against them. They will embroidered cloth. You ate pastry of fine flour,
go out from one fire, but another fire shall honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful,
devour them. Then you shall know that I am and succeeded to royalty. Your fame went out
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the LORD, when I set My face against them. among the nations because of your beauty, for it
8 Thus I will make the land desolate, because was perfect through My splendor which I had
they have persisted in unfaithfulness,’ says the bestowed on you,” says the Lord GOD.
Lord GOD.” 15 “But you trusted in your own beauty,
Again the word of the LORD came to me, played the harlot because of your fame, and
16 saying, “Son of man, cause Jerusalem to poured out your harlotry on everyone passing
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know her abominations, and say, ‘Thus says by who would have it. You took some of your
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the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: “Your birth and garments and adorned multicolored high
your nativity are from the land of Canaan; your places for yourself, and played the harlot on
father was an Amorite and your mother a them. Such things should not happen, nor be.
Hittite. As for your nativity, on the day you 17 You have also taken your beautiful jewelry
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were born your navel cord was not cut, nor from My gold and My silver, which I had given
were you washed in water to cleanse you; you you, and made for yourself male images and
were not rubbed with salt nor wrapped in played the harlot with them. You took your
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swaddling cloths. No eye pitied you, to do any embroidered garments and covered them,
of these things for you, to have compassion on and you set My oil and My incense before
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you; but you were thrown out into the open them. Also My food which I gave you—the
field, when you yourself were loathed on the pastry of fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed
day you were born. you—you set it before them as sweet incense;
6 “And when I passed by you and saw you and so it was,” says the Lord GOD.
struggling in your own blood, I said to you in 20 “Moreover you took your sons and your
your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you in your daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these
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blood, ‘Live!’ I made you thrive like a plant in you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were
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the field; and you grew, matured, and became your acts of harlotry a small matter, that you
very beautiful. Your breasts were formed, have slain My children and offered them up to
your hair grew, but you were naked and bare. them by causing them to pass through the
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8 “When I passed by you again and looked fire? And in all your abominations and acts of
upon you, indeed your time was the time of harlotry you did not remember the days of
love; so I spread My wing over you and cov- your youth, when you were naked and bare,
ered your nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to struggling in your blood.
you and entered into a covenant with you, and 23 “Then it was so, after all your wickedness—
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you became Mine,” says the Lord GOD. ‘Woe, woe to you!’ says the Lord GOD— that
you also built for yourself a shrine, and made
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a high place for yourself in every street. You
built your high places at the head of every
road, and made your beauty to be abhorred.
16:8 the time of love. This refers to the mar- You offered yourself to everyone who passed
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riageable state.Spreading his “wing”was a cus- by, and multiplied your acts of harlotry. You
tom of espousal (Ruth 3:9) and indicates that also committed harlotry with the Egyptians,
God entered into a covenant with the young your very fleshly neighbors, and increased
nation at Mt. Sinai (Ex. 19:5–8). Making a your acts of harlotry to provoke Me to anger.
covenant signifies marriage,the figure of God’s 27 “Behold, therefore, I stretched out My
relation to Israel (Jer.2:2; 3:1ff.; Hos.2:2–23). hand against you, diminished your allotment,
and gave you up to the will of those who hate
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