Ezekiel 16:15-34

The Lord's Faithless Bride

15 v "But you trusted in your beauty w and played the whore 1 because of your renown x and lavished your whorings 2 on any passerby; your beauty 3 became his. 16 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. 4 17 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. 18 And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, a and set my oil and my incense before them. 19 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. 20 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 21 that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them? 22 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.

23 "And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord God), 24 you built yourself h a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square. 25 At the head of every street i you built your lofty place and made j your beauty an abomination, k offering yourself 5 to any passerby and multiplying your whoring. 26 w You also played the whore l with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, m multiplying your whoring, n to provoke me to anger. 27 Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you o and diminished your allotted portion p and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, q the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. 28 w You played the whore also r with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied. 29 You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land t of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.

30 "How sick is your heart, 6 declares the Lord God, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute, 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, u because you scorned payment. 32 Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband! 33 Men give gifts to all prostitutes, v but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings. 34 So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and v you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different.

  1. Cross References
    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.
  2. Cross References
    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...
  3. Cross References
    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.
  4. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:11
    And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck.
  5. Cross References
    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.
  6. Cross References
    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.
  7. Cross References
    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.
  8. Cross References
    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.
  9. Cross References
    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.
  10. Cross References
    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.
  11. Cross References
    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.
  12. Cross References
    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.
  13. Cross References
    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!'
  14. Cross References
    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.
  15. Cross References
    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.
  16. Cross References
    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.
  17. Cross References
    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.
  18. Cross References
    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.
  19. Cross References
    Ezekiel 20:7 - 8
    And I said to them, Cast away the detestable things your eyes feast on, every one of you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.
    Ezekiel 23:19 - 21
    Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt
  20. Cross References
    Ezekiel 23:14
    But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion.
    Ezekiel 23:19
    Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt
  21. Cross References
    Jeremiah 7:18 - 19
    The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven. And they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
  22. Cross References
    Ezekiel 5:10 - 11
    Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.
  23. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:37
    Therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from every side and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
  24. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:57
    Before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have become an object of reproach for the daughters of Syria and all those around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who despise you.
    2 Samuel 1:20
    Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.
  25. Cross References
    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.
  26. Cross References
    Ezekiel 23:12
    She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
    Jeremiah 2:18
    And now what do you gain by going to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? Or what do you gain by going to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates?
    Jeremiah 2:36
    How much you go about, changing your way! You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.
    2 Kings 16:7 - 18
    So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, "I am your servant and your son. Come up and rescue me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are attacking me.
    2 Chronicles 28:16 - 21
    At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria for help.
  27. Cross References
    Ezekiel 23:14 - 16
    But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion.
  28. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:33 - 34
    Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings.
  29. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:41
    And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. I will make you stop playing the whore, and you shall also give payment no more.
    Hosea 8:9
    For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey wandering alone; Ephraim has hired lovers.
  30. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:33
    Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings.
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