Ezekiel 16:15-25
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v "But you trusted in your beauty w and played the whore because of your renown x and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his.
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You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.
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You also took y your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and z made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore.
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And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, a and set my oil and my incense before them.
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b Also my bread that I gave you - s I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey - you set before them for c a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord God.
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d And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and e these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter
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that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?
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And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember f the days of your youth, g when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.
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"And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord God),
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you built yourself h a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square.
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At the head of every street i you built your lofty place and made j your beauty an abomination, k offering yourself to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.
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Ezekiel 16:13
Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.
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Ezekiel 23:3
They played the whore in Egypt; they played the...
Ezekiel 23:8
She did not give up her whoring that she had be...
Ezekiel 23:11 - 12
Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became mo...
Leviticus 17:7
So they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifice...
Isaiah 1:21
How the faithful city has become a whore, she w...
Isaiah 57:8
Behind the door and the doorpost you have set u...
Jeremiah 2:20
For long ago I broke your yoke and burst your b...
Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see!...
Jeremiah 3:6
The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah:...
Jeremiah 3:20
Surely, as a treacherous wife leaves her husban...
Hosea 1:2
When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lo...
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Ezekiel 16:25
At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.
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Ezekiel 16:11
And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck.
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Ezekiel 7:20
His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore I make it an unclean thing to them.
Ezekiel 23:14
But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion.
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Ezekiel 23:41
You sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.
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Hosea 2:8
And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished on her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
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Ezekiel 16:13
Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.
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Ezekiel 6:13
And you shall know that I am the Lord, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing aroma to all their idols.
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Ezekiel 16:21
That you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?
Ezekiel 16:36
Thus says the Lord God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them.
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Ezekiel 20:26
And I defiled them through their very gifts in their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. I did it that they might know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 20:31
When you present your gifts and offer up your children in fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, declares the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.
Ezekiel 23:37
For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.
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Ezekiel 16:43
Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord God. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?
Ezekiel 16:60
Yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.
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Ezekiel 16:6 - 7
"And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you in your blood, 'Live!' I said to you in your blood, 'Live!'
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Ezekiel 16:39
And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places. They shall strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewels and leave you naked and bare.
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Ezekiel 16:31
Building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.
Isaiah 57:7
On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifice.
Jeremiah 2:20
For long ago I broke your yoke and burst your bonds; but you said, 'I will not serve.' Yes, on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down like a whore.
Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been ravished? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile whoredom.
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Ezekiel 16:14
And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord God.
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Ezekiel 16:15
But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his.
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