Douay Rheims Original ↷
Ezekiel 16 📜 📕 ↷
15 And having confidence in thy beauty thou hast fornicated in thy name: & thou hast laid forth thy fornication to every passenger to be made his.📜💬📚
16 And taking off thy garments thou madest thee idols embroidered on each side: & thou didst fornicate upon them, as hath not been done, nor shall not hereafter.📜💬📚
17 And thou tookest the vessels of thy beauty, of my gold, and my silver, which I gave thee: and thou madest thee images of men, and hast fornicated in them.📜💬📚
18 And thou tookest thy garments of many colours, and coveredst them: and mine oil, and mine incense thou didst put before them.📜💬📚
19 And my bread, which I gave thee, the flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I have nourished thee, thou didst set in their sight for an odour of sweetness, and it was done saith our Lord God.📜💬📚
20 And thou hast taken thy sons, & thy daughters, which thou didst beget to me: and hast immolated the same unto them to devour. Why, is thy fornication small?📜💬📚
21 Thou hast immolated my sons, & hast given them, consecrating them to the idols.📜💬📚
22 And after all thine abominations, & fornications, thou wast not mindful of the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked, & full of confusion, trodden down in thy blood.📜💬📚
23 And it chanced after all thy malice (woe, woe to thee, saith our Lord God)📜💬📚
24 thou didst also build thee a stews, & madest thee a brothel house in all streets.📜💬📚
25 At every head of the way hast thou built a sign of thy prostitution: & hast made thy beauty abominable: & hast divided thy feet to every one that passeth by, and hast multiplied thy fornications.📜💬📚
26 And thou hast fornicated with the children of AEgypt thy neighbours of great flesh, & hast multiplied thy fornication to provoke me.📜💬📚
27 Behold I will stretch out my hand upon thee, & will take away thy justification: & I will give thee into the souls of the daughters of Palestine that hate thee, that are ashamed of thy wicked way.📜💬📚
28 And thou hast committed fornication with the sons of the Assyrians, because neither as yet wast thou filled: & after thou didst fornicate, neither so wast thou satiated.📜💬📚
29 And thou didst multiply thy fornication in the Land of Chanaan with the Chaldees: & neither so wast thou satiated.📜💬📚
30 Wherein shall I cleanse thy heart, saith our Lord God: whereas thou doest all these the works of a woman that is a whore, & malapert?📜💬📚
31 Because thou hast built thy brothel house in the head of every way, & thy excels thou hast made in every street, neither becamest thou as an harlot that by disdain augmenteth the price,📜💬📚
32 but as a woman adulteress, that over her husband bringeth in strangers.📜💬📚
33 To all harlots are rewards given: but thou hast given rewards to all thy lovers, & thou didst give them gifts to come unto thee on every side, to fornicate with thee.📜💬📚
34 And in thee it was done contrary to the custom of women in thy fornications, and after thee there shall be no fornication: for in that thou gavest rewards, and didst not take rewards, it hath been done contrary in thee.📜💬📚
Judgment on Jerusalem
35 Therefore hear, o harlot, the word of our Lord.📜💬📚
36 Thus saith our Lord God: Because thy brass is poured out, & thine ignominy is revealed in thy fornications upon thy lovers, and upon the idols of thine abominations in the blood of thy children, whom thou gavest them:📜💬📚
37 Behold I will gather together all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, & all whom thou hast loved, with all, whom thou didst hate: and I will gather them together upon thee on every side, and will discover thine ignominy before them, and they shall see all thy turpitude.📜💬📚
38 And I will judge thee by the judgements of adulteresses, and them that shed blood: and I will give thee into blood of fury and zeal.📜💬📚
39 And I will give thee into their hands, and they shall destroy thy brothel-house, and throw down thy stews: and they shall turn thee naked out of thy garments, and shall take away the vessels of thy beauty: and shall leave thee naked, and full of ignominy.📜💬📚
40 And they shall bring upon thee a multitude, and they shall stone thee with stones, and shall murder thee with their swords.📜💬📚
41 And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and shall do judgements in thee in the eyes of very many women: and thou shalt cease to fornicate, and shalt give rewards no more.📜💬📚
42 And mine indignation shall rest in thee: and my zeal shall be taken away from thee, and I will cease, and be angry no more.📜💬📚
43 For that thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, and hast provoked me in all these: wherefore I also have given thy ways on thy head, saith our Lord God, & I have not done according to thy wicked deeds in all thine abominations.📜💬📚
44 Behold every one, that speaketh a common proverb, shall take up that against thee, saying: As the mother, so also her daughter.📜💬📚
45 Thou art the daughter of thy mother, which did cast off her husband, & her children: & thou art sister of thy sisters, which did cast off their husbands, and their children: your mother was a Cetheite, and your father an Amorrheite.📜💬📚
46 And thy elder sister, Samaria, she & her daughters, that dwell on thy left hand, & thy sister younger than thou, which dwelleth on thy right hand, Sodom, & her daughters.📜💬📚
47 But neither in their ways has thou walked, nor according to their wicked deeds hast thou done a very little less: thou hast done almost more wicked things than they in all thy ways.📜💬📚
48 Live I, saith our Lord God, that Sodom thy sister her self hath not done, and her daughters, as thou hast done, and thy daughters.📜💬📚
49 Lo this was the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, pride, fullness of bread, and aboundance, and the idleness of her, and of her daughters: and they raught not the hand to the needy, and the poor.📜💬📚
50 And they were elevated, and did abominations before me: & I took them away as thou hast seen.📜💬📚
51 And Samaria sinned not the half of thy sins: but thou hast passed them with thy wicked deeds, & hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations, which thou hast wrought.📜💬📚
52 Thou also therefore carry thy confusion, which hast passed thy sisters with thy sins, doing more wickedly than they: for they are justified above thee: thou also therefore be confounded, and bear thine ignominy, which hast justified thy sisters.📜💬📚
53 And I will convert restoring them by the conversion of Sodom with her daughters, and by the conversion of Samaria, and her daughters: and I will convert thy reversion in the midst of them,📜💬📚
54 that thou mayst carry thine ignominy, and mayst be confounded in all things, that thou hast done, comforting them.📜💬📚
55 And thy sister Sodom, and her daughters shall return to their antiquity: and Samaria, and her daughters shall return to their antiquity: and thou, and thy daughters shall return to your antiquity.📜💬📚
56 And Sodom thy sister was not heard in thy mouth, in the day of thy pride,📜💬📚
57 before that thy malice was revealed: as at this time for reproach of the daughters of Syria, & of all the daughters of Palesthine in the circuit of thee, which compass thee round about.📜💬📚
58 Thy wickedness, & thine ignominy thou hast carried, saith our Lord God.📜💬📚
Covenant Remembered
59 Because thus saith our Lord God: And I will do to thee, as thou hast despised the oath, to make the covenant frustrate:📜💬📚
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