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Ezekiel 16

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1 Muling ang salita ng Panginoon ay dumating sa akin, na nagsasabi.

2 Anak ng tao, ipakilala mo sa Jerusalem ang kaniyang mga kasuklamsuklam.

3 At sabihin mo, Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios sa Jerusalem: Ang iyong pinagmulan at ang iyong kapanganakan ay ang lupain ng Cananeo; ang Amorrheo ay iyong Ama, at ang iyong ina ay Hethea.

4 At tungkol sa iyong kapanganakan, nang araw na ikaw ay ipanganak ay hindi naputol ang iyong pusod, o napaliguan ka man sa tubig upang linisin ka; ikaw ay hindi pinahiran ng asin, o nabalot man.

5 Walang matang nahabag sa iyo; upang gawin ang anoman sa mga ito sa iyo, na maawa sa iyo; kundi ikaw ay nahagis sa luwal na parang, sapagka't ang iyong pagkatao ay itinakuwil, nang araw na ikaw ay ipanganak.

6 At nang ako'y dumaan sa tabi mo, at makita kita na nagugumon sa iyong dugo, sinabi ko sa iyo, Bagaman ikaw ay nagugumon sa iyong dugo, mabuhay ka: oo, sinabi ko sa iyo, Bagaman ikaw ay nagugumon sa iyong dugo, mabuhay ka.

7 Pinarami kita na parang damo sa parang, at ikaw ay kumapal at dumakilang mainam, at ikaw ay nagtamo ng mainam na kagayakan: ang iyong dibdib ay naganyo, at ang iyong buhok ay lumago; gayon ma'y ikaw ay hubo at hubad.

8 Nang ako nga'y magdaan sa tabi mo, at tumingin sa iyo, narito, ang iyong panahon ay panahon ng pagibig; at aking iniladlad ang aking balabal sa iyo, at tinakpan ko ang iyong kahubaran: oo, ako'y sumumpa sa iyo, at nakipagtipan sa iyo, sabi ng Panginoong Dios, at ikaw ay naging akin.

9 Nang magkagayo'y pinaliguan kita ng tubig; oo, aking nilinis na mainam ang iyong dugo, at pinahiran kita ng langis.

10 Binihisan din naman kita ng yaring may burda, at sinapatusan kita ng balat ng foka, at binigkisan kita sa palibot ng mainam na kayong lino, at binalot kita ng sutla.

11 Ginayakan din naman kita ng hiyas, at nilagyan ko ng mga pulsera ang iyong mga kamay, at ng isang kuwintas ang iyong leeg.

12 At nilagyan ko ng hikaw ang iyong ilong, at ng mga hikaw ang iyong mga tainga, at isang magandang putong ang iyong ulo.

13 Ganito ka nagayakan ng ginto at pilak; at ang iyong damit ay mainam na kayong lino, at sutla at yaring may burda; ikaw ay kumain ng mainam na harina, at ng pulot, at ng langis; at ikaw ay lubhang maganda, at ikaw ay guminhawa sa kalagayang pagkahari.

14 At ang iyong kabantugan ay nangalat sa gitna ng mga bansa dahil sa iyong kagandahan; sapagka't naging sakdal dahil sa aking kamahalan na aking inilagay sa iyo, sabi ng Panginoong Dios.

15 Nguni't ikaw ay tumiwala sa iyong kagandahan, at nagpatutot dahil sa iyong kabantugan, at ikinalat mo ang iyong mga pakikiapid sa bawa't nagdaraan; yao'y kaniya nga.

16 At kinuha mo ang iyong mga suot, at ginawa mo para sa iyo ang mga mataas na dako na kagayakan na may sarisaring kulay, at nagpatutot sa kanila: ang gayong mga bagay ay hindi na darating, o mangyayari pa man.

17 Kinuha mo naman ang iyong mga magandang hiyas na ginto at pilak, na aking ibinigay sa iyo, at ginawa mo sa iyo ng mga larawan ng mga tao, at iyong ipinagpatutot sa kanila;

18 At iyong kinuha ang iyong mga bihisang may burda, at ibinalot mo sa kanila, at inilagay mo ang aking langis at ang aking kamangyan sa harap nila.

19 Ang aking tinapay naman na aking ibinigay sa iyo, mainam na harina, at langis, pulot, na aking ipinakain sa iyo, iyong inilagay nga sa harap nila na pinakamasarap na amoy; at ganito nangyari, sabi ng Panginoong Dios.

20 Bukod dito'y kinuha mo ang iyong mga anak na lalake at babae, na iyong ipinanganak sa akin, at ang mga ito ay iyong inihain sa kanila upang lamunin. Ang iyo bagang mga pakikiapid ay maliit na bagay.

21 Na iyong pinatay ang aking mga anak, at iyong ibinigay sila na pinararaan sila sa apoy?

22 At sa lahat ng iyong mga kasuklamsuklam, at ng iyong mga pakikiapid hindi mo inalaala ang mga kaarawan ng iyong kabataan, nang ikaw ay hubo at hubad, at nagugumon sa iyong dugo.

23 At nangyari, pagkatapos ng iyong buong kasamaan (sa aba, sa aba mo! sabi ng Panginoong Dios),

24 Na ikaw ay nagtayo para sa iyo ng isang matayog na dako, at gumawa ka para sa iyo ng mataas na dako sa bawa't lansangan.

25 Itinayo mo ang iyong mataas na dako sa bawa't bukana ng daan, at ginawa mong kasuklamsuklam ang iyong kagandahan, at ibinuka mo ang iyong mga paa sa bawa't nagdaraan, at pinarami mo ang iyong pakikiapid.

26 Ikaw naman ay nakiapid din sa mga taga Egipto, na iyong mga kalapit bayan, na malaki sa pangangatawan; at iyong pinarami ang iyong pakikiapid upang mungkahiin mo ako sa galit.

27 Narito nga, iniunat ko ang aking kamay sa iyo, at binawasan ko ang iyong karaniwang pagkain, at ibinigay kita sa balang maibigan ng nangagtatanim sa iyo, na mga anak na babae ng mga Filisteo, na nangapapahiya sa iyong kalibugan.

28 Ikaw naman ay nagpatutot din sa mga taga Asiria, sapagka't ikaw ay hindi nasisiyahan: oo, ikaw ay nagpatutot sa kanila, at gayon ma'y hindi ka nasisiyahan.

29 Bukod dito'y iyong pinarami ang iyong pakikiapid sa lupain ng Canaan, hanggang sa Caldea; at gayon ma'y hindi ka nasisiyahan.

30 Pagkahinahina ng iyong loob, sabi ng Panginoong Dios, palibhasa'y iyong ginagawa ang lahat na bagay na ito, na gawa ng isang hambog na patutot:

31 Sa iyong pagtatayo ng iyong matayog na dako sa bukana ng bawa't daan, at ginagawa mo ang iyong mataas na dako sa bawa't lansangan; at hindi ka naging gaya ng isang patutot sa iyong pagwawalang kabuluhan ng upa.

32 Isang babae na napakakalunya! na tumatanggap sa iba na kahalili ng kaniyang asawa!

33 Sila'y nagbibigay ng mga kaloob sa lahat ng mga patutot: nguni't ikaw ay nagbibigay ng iyong mga kaloob sa lahat na mangliligaw sa iyo, at iyong sinusuhulan sila, upang sila'y magsilapit sa iyo sa bawa't dako, dahil sa iyong mga pakikiapid.

34 At ang kaibahan ng ibang mga babae ay nasa iyo sa iyong mga pakikiapid, sa paraang walang sumusunod sa iyo upang makiapid: at sa iyong pagbibigay ng upa, at walang upa na ibinibigay sa iyo, kaya't ikaw ay kaiba.

35 Kaya't, Oh patutot, pakinggan mo ang salita ng Panginoon:

36 Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios, Sapagka't ang iyong karumihan ay nahayag, at ang iyong kahubaran ay nalitaw sa iyong mga pakikiapid sa mga mangliligaw sa iyo; at dahil sa lahat ng diosdiosan na iyong mga kasuklamsuklam, at dahil sa dugo ng iyong mga anak, na iyong ibinigay sa kanila;

37 Kaya't, narito, aking pipisanin ang lahat na mangingibig sa iyo, na iyong pinagkaroonan ng kalayawan, at lahat ng iyong inibig, sangpu ng lahat na iyong kinapuotan; akin ngang pipisanin sila laban sa iyo sa bawa't dako, at aking ililitaw ang iyong kahubaran sa kanila, upang kanilang makita ang iyong buong kahubaran.

38 At aking hahatulan ka na gaya ng hatol sa mga babaing nangangalunya at nagbububo ng dugo; at aking dadalhin sa iyo ang dugo ng kapusukan at ng paninibugho.

39 Ikaw ay ibibigay ko rin sa kanilang kamay, at kanilang ibabagsak ang iyong matayog na dako, at igigiba ang iyong mga mataas na dako, at kanilang huhubaran ka ng iyong mga suot, at kukunin ang iyong magandang mga hiyas; at kanilang iiwan ka na hubo at hubad.

40 Sila naman ay mangagaahon ng isang pulutong laban sa iyo, at babatuhin ka nila ng mga bato, at palalagpasan ka ng kanilang mga tabak.

41 At susunugin nila ng apoy ang iyong mga bahay, at maglalapat ng mga kahatulan sa iyo sa paningin ng maraming babae; at aking patitigilin ka sa pagpapapatutot, at ikaw naman ay hindi na magbibigay pa ng upa.

42 Sa gayo'y aking papawiin ang aking kapusukan sa iyo, at ang aking paninibugho ay hihiwalay sa iyo, at ako'y matatahimik, at hindi na magagalit pa.

43 Sapagka't hindi mo naalaala ang mga kaarawan ng iyong kabataan, kundi ako'y pinapagiinit mo sa lahat ng mga bagay na ito; kaya't, narito, akin namang pararatingin ang iyong lakad sa iyong ulo, sabi ng Panginoong Dios: at hindi ka na gagawa ng kahalayang ito, na higit kay sa lahat ng iyong mga kasuklamsuklam.

44 Narito, bawa't sumasambit ng mga kawikaan ay sasambitin ang kawikaang ito laban sa iyo, na sasabihin, Kung ano ang ina, gayon ang kaniyang anak na babae.

45 Ikaw ang anak na babae ng iyong ina, na nagtakuwil ng kaniyang asawa at ng kaniyang mga anak; at ikaw ang kapatid ng iyong mga kapatid, na nagtakuwil ng kanilang mga asawa at ng kanilang mga anak: ang inyong ina ay Hetea, at ang inyong ama ay Amorrheo.

46 At ang iyong panganay na kapatid na babae ay ang Samaria na tumatahan sa iyong kaliwa, siya at ang kaniyang mga anak na babae; at ang iyong bunsong kapatid na babae na tumatahan sa iyong kanan ay Sodoma at ang kaniyang mga anak.

47 Gayon ma'y hindi ka lumakad sa kanilang mga lakad, o gumawa man ng ayon sa kanilang kasuklamsuklam, kundi wari napakaliit na bagay, ikaw ay hamak na higit kay sa kanila sa lahat ng iyong mga lakad.

48 Buhay ako, sabi ng Panginoong Dios, ang Sodoma na iyong kapatid na babae ay hindi gumawa, siya o ang kaniyang mga anak na babae man, na gaya ng iyong ginawa, ng ginawa mo, at ng iyong mga anak na babae.

49 Narito, ito ang kasamaan ng iyong kapatid na babae na Sodoma; kapalaluan, kayamuan sa tinapay, at ang malabis na kapahingahan ay nasa kaniya at sa kaniyang mga anak na babae; at hindi man niya pinalakas ang kamay ng dukha at mapagkailangan.

50 At sila'y palalo at gumawa ng kasuklamsuklam sa harap ko: kaya't aking inalis sila, ayon sa aking minagaling.

51 Kahit ang Samaria ay hindi nakagawa ng kalahati ng iyong mga kasalanan, nguni't pinarami mo ang iyong mga kasuklamsuklam na higit kay sa kanila, at iyong pinabuti ang iyong mga kapatid na babae sa pamamagitan ng lahat mong mga kasuklamsuklam na iyong ginawa.

52 Ikaw rin naman, taglayin mo ang iyong sariling kahihiyan, sa iyong paglalapat ng kahatulan sa iyong mga kapatid na babae; sa iyong mga kasalanan na iyong nagawa na higit na kasuklamsuklam kay sa kanila, sila'y lalong matuwid kay sa iyo: oo, malito ka, at taglayin mo ang iyong kahihiyan, sa iyong pagpapabuti sa iyong mga kapatid na babae.

53 At aking panunumbalikin uli sila mula sa kanilang pagkabihag, sa pagkabihag ng Sodoma at ng kaniyang mga anak na babae, at sa pagkabihag ng Samaria at ng kaniyang mga anak na babae, at sa pagkabihag ng iyong mga bihag sa gitna nila.

54 Upang iyong taglayin ang iyong sariling kahihiyan, at ikaw ay mapahiya dahil sa lahat na iyong ginawa sa iyong pagaliw sa kanila.

55 At ang iyong mga kapatid na babae ang Sodoma at ang kaniyang mga anak na babae mangagbabalik sa kanilang dating kalagayan; at ang Samaria at ang kaniyang mga anak na babae ay mangagbabalik sa kanilang dating kalagayan; at ikaw at ang iyong mga anak ay mangagbabalik sa inyong dating kalagayan.

56 Sapagka't ang iyong kapatid na babae na Sodoma ay hindi nabanggit ng iyong bibig sa kaarawan ng iyong kapalaluan;

57 Bago nalitaw ang iyong kasamaan, gaya sa panahon ng kapulaan sa mga anak na babae ng Siria, at sa lahat na nangasa palibot niya, na mga anak na babae ng mga Filisteo, na siyang kumukutya sa iyo sa palibot.

58 Iyong isinagawa ang iyong kahalayan at ang iyong mga kasuklamsuklam, sabi ng Panginoon.

59 Sapagka't ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios, Akin namang gagawin sa iyo na gaya ng iyong ginawa, na iyong hinamak ang sumpa sa pagsira ng tipan.

60 Gayon ma'y aalalahanin ko ang aking tipan sa iyo nang mga kaarawan ng iyong kabataan, at aking itatatag sa iyo ang isang walang hanggang tipan.

61 Kung magkagayo'y aalalahanin mo ang iyong mga lakad, at mapapahiya ka, pagka iyong tatanggapin ang iyong mga kapatid na babae, ang iyong mga matandang kapatid at ang iyong batang kapatid: at aking ibibigay sila sa iyo na mga pinakaanak na babae, nguni't hindi sa pamamagitan ng iyong tipan.

62 At aking itatatag ang aking tipan sa iyo; at iyong malalaman na ako ang Panginoon;

63 Upang iyong maalaala, at malito ka, at kailan pa man ay hindi mo na bukahin ang iyong bibig, dahil sa iyong kahihiyan, pagka aking pinatawad ka ng lahat na iyong nagawa, sabi ng Panginoong Dios.

   

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True Christian Religion #782

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782. 1 The reason why the new church is meant by the New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven (Revelation 21), is that Jerusalem was the capital city in the land of Canaan. It was there that the temple was and the altar where sacrifices were made, and so the Divine worship to which three times a year every male in the whole land was commanded to come. It was also because Jerusalem is where the Lord was, and taught in its temple; and He afterwards there glorified His Human. These are the reasons why Jerusalem means the church. It is perfectly plain that Jerusalem means the church from the prophecies in the Old Testament about the new church to be founded by the Lord, since it is there called Jerusalem.

[2] It is only necessary to quote the passages themselves, for anyone possessed of inward reason to be able to see, that Jerusalem there means the church. Let the following passages suffice:

Behold, I create a new heaven and a new earth; the former ones will not be remembered. Look, I shall make Jerusalem an exultation, and its people happiness, so that I may exult over Jerusalem and rejoice over my people. Then the wolf and the lamb will feed together. They will do no harm in all the mountain of my holiness, Isaiah 65:17-19, 25.

For Zion's sake I will not be silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness goes forth like a beam of light, and her salvation burns like a lamp. Then the nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. And you will be called by a new name, which the mouth of Jehovah will utter, and you will be a crown of beauty [in the hand of Jehovah] 2 and a diadem of kingship in the hand of your God. Jehovah will be pleased in you, and your land will be married. Behold, your salvation will come, behold, His reward is with Him. And they will call them the people of holiness, the redeemed of Jehovah. And you will be called a city sought after, not abandoned, Isaiah 62:1-4, 11-12.

[3] Awake, awake, Zion, put on your strength. Put on the clothes of your beauty, Jerusalem, city of holiness; for no more will the uncircumcised and the unclean come into you. Shake off the dust, arise and take your seat, Jerusalem. The people will know my name on that day, for I am he that speaks, here I am. Jehovah has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem, Isaiah 52:1-2, 6, 9.

Shout for joy, daughter of Zion, rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem. The king of Israel is in your midst. Fear evil no longer. He will rejoice over you with joy; he will be satisfied in his 3 love, he will exult over you with a shout of joy. I will make you a name and the object of praise to all the peoples of the earth, Zephaniah 3:14-17, 20.

Thus spoke Jehovah your Redeemer, telling Jerusalem, You will be dwelt in, Isaiah 44:24, 26.

Thus spoke Jehovah, I will return to Zion and dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Therefore Jerusalem will be called the city of truth, and the mountain of Jehovah Zebaoth the mountain of holiness, Zechariah 8:3, 20-23.

Then you will know that I am Jehovah your God, who dwell in Zion, the mountain of holiness; and Jerusalem will be holiness. And it will happen on that day that the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills will flow with milk. And Jerusalem will stay fixed from one generation to another, Joel 3:17-21.

[4] On that day the shoot of Jehovah will be an adornment and a glory; and it will come about that the one who is left in Zion, the one who remains in Jerusalem, will be called holy, everyone enrolled with a view to life in Jerusalem, Isaiah 4:2-3.

At the end of days the mountain of Jehovah's house will be established on the head of mountains; for from Zion will come forth teaching, and the Word of Jehovah from Jerusalem, Micah 4:1-2, 8.

At that time they will call Jerusalem Jehovah's throne, and all nations will be gathered to Jerusalem for Jehovah's name's sake, and they will no longer follow the prompting of their evil hearts, Jeremiah 3:17.

Look to Zion, the city of our appointed feast, let you eyes behold Jerusalem, a tranquil dwelling, a tent which will not be blown away. Its pegs will never be removed, and its ropes will not be pulled up, Isaiah 33:20.

There are further passages such as Isaiah 24:23; 37:32; 66:10-14; Zechariah 12:3, 6-10; 14:8, 11-12, 21; Malachi 3:4; Psalms 122:1-7; 137:4-6.

[5] It is obvious from the details of the description of Jerusalem in the passages quoted that it means there the church to be founded by the Lord, and not the Jerusalem where the Jews lived. For instance, it is said Jehovah will create a new heaven and a new earth, and also at that time Jerusalem; that it will be a crown of beauty and a diadem of kingship; that it is to be called holiness and a city of truth, Jehovah's throne, a tranquil dwelling, a tent which will not be blown away. It is said that the wolf and the lamb will feed together there; that there the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills flow with milk, and it will stay fixed for one generation after another; and much more besides. It is also said of its people that they are holy, everyone enrolled with a view to life, and they are to be called Jehovah's redeemed. Moreover, all those passages deal with the Lord's coming, especially His second coming, when there will be a Jerusalem such as is there described; for it has not previously been married, that is, made the bride and wife of the Lamb, as the New Jerusalem is described in Revelation.

[6] The earlier, that is, the present-day church, is meant by Jerusalem in Daniel, and its beginnings are there described as follows:

Know and perceive, from the time the word went forth to restore and build Jerusalem, until the coming of the Messiah, the prince, will be seven weeks. Afterwards for sixty-two weeks the street and the moat will be restored and built, but at a time of distress, Daniel 9:25.

Its end is there described as follows:

At last upon the bird of abominations desolation, and it will drip upon devastation up to the point of ending and cutting off, Daniel 9:27.

It is this last passage which is meant by the Lord's words in Matthew:

When you see the abomination of desolation, foretold by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place - let him who reads take due note, Matthew 24:15.

It can be established that Jerusalem in the passages quoted above does not mean the Jerusalem inhabited by the Jews, from the passages in the Word which say that it has been utterly lost and is to be destroyed; for instance, Jeremiah 5:1; 6:6-7; 7:17ff; Jeremiah 8:6ff; Jeremiah 9:11-12, 14ff; Jeremiah 13:9-10, 14; 14:16; Lamentations 1:8-9, 17; Ezekiel 4:1 - end; Ezekiel 5:9- end; Ezekiel 12:18-19; 15:6-8; 16:1-63; 23; Matthew 23:37-38; Luke 19:41-44; 21:20-22; 23:28-30; and in many other passages. There are also passages where it is called Sodom: Isaiah 3:9; Jeremiah 23:14; Ezekiel 16:46, 48; and elsewhere.

Footnotes:

1. This section and 783 are repeated from Brief Exposition 100-101.

2. These words are missing from the printed text, but are added in the Author's copy.

3. The Latin has 'in your love', but this is corrected in the Author's copy.

  
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Ezekiel 16

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1 Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;

3 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your birth and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.

4 As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you; you weren't salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, for that your person was abhorred, in the day that you were born.

6 When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, [Though you are] in your blood, live; yes, I said to you, [Though you are] in your blood, live.

7 I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament; your breasts were fashioned, and your hair was grown; yet you were naked and bare.

8 Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh, and you became mine.

9 Then washed I you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.

10 I clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you with sealskin, and I dressed you about with fine linen, and covered you with silk.

11 I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck.

12 I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

13 Thus you were decked with gold and silver; and your clothing was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you ate fine flour, and honey, and oil; and you were exceeding beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate.

14 Your renown went forth among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you, says the Lord Yahweh.

15 But you trusted in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by; his it was.

16 You took of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so].

17 You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them;

18 and you took your embroidered garments, and covered them, and did set my oil and my incense before them.

19 My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you even set it before them for a pleasant aroma; and [thus] it was, says the Lord Yahweh.

20 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter,

21 that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through [the fire] to them?

22 In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were wallowing in your blood.

23 It has happened after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you! says the Lord Yahweh),

24 that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street.

25 You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.

26 You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.

27 See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary [food], and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.

28 You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute with them, and yet you weren't satisfied.

29 You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren't satisfied with this.

30 How weak is your heart, says the Lord Yahweh, since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;

31 in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.

32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!

33 They give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.

34 You are different from [other] women in your prostitution, in that no one follows you to play the prostitute; and whereas you give hire, and no hire is given to you, therefore you are different.

35 Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh:

36 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them;

37 therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

38 I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

39 I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places; and they shall strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels; and they shall leave you naked and bare.

40 They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

41 They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you shall also give no hire any more.

42 So will I cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from you, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head, says the Lord Yahweh: and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.

44 Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use [this] proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

45 You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes 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 elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

47 Yet have you not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.

48 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.

49 Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

50 They were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good].

51 Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all your abominations which you have done.

52 You also, bear you your own shame, in that you have given judgment for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous that you: yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.

53 I will turn again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of your captives in the midst of them;

54 that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.

55 Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate; and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate; and you and your daughters shall return to your former estate.

56 For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,

57 before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who are around her, the daughters of the Philistines, who do despite to you all around.

58 You have borne your lewdness and your abominations, says Yahweh.

59 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.

61 Then you shall remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, your elder [sisters] and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.

62 I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh;

63 that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done, says the Lord Yahweh.