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Ezequiel 16

1 Againe, the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

2 Sonne of man, cause Ierusalem to knowe her abominations,

3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD to Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity [is] of the landYou boast to be of the seed of Abraham, but you are degenerate and follow the abominations of the wicked Canaanites as children do the manners of their fathers, (Isa_1:4, Isa_57:3).of Canaan; thy father [was] an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.

4 And [as for] thy nativity, in the day thou wastWhen I first brought you out of Egypt and planted you in this land to be my Church.born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to cleanse [thee]; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

5 None eye pitied thee to do any of these vnto thee, for to haue compassion vpon thee, but thou wast cast out in the open fielde to the contempt of thy person in ye day that thou wast borne.

6 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thyBeing thus in your filthiness and forsaken by all men, I took you and gave you life: by which is meant that before God wash his Church and give life, there is nothing but filthiness and death.own blood, I said to thee [when thou wast] in thy blood, Live; yea, I said to thee [when thou wast] in thy blood, Live.

7 I haue caused thee to multiplie as the bud of the fielde, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou hast gotten excellent ornaments: thy breastes are facioned, thine heare is growen, where as thou wast naked and bare.

8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time [was] the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and coveredThese words as blood, pollution, nakedness and filthiness are often repeated to beat down their pride, and to cause them to consider what they were before God received them to mercy, favoured them and covered their shame.thy nakedness: yea, I swore to thee, and entered into a covenant withThat you should be a chaste wife to me, and that I should maintain you and endue you with all graces.thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.

9 Then I washed thee withI washed away your sins.water; yea, I thoroughly washed away thy blood from thee, and II sanctified you with my Holy Spirit.anointed thee with oil.

10 I clothed thee also with broydred worke, and shod thee with badgers skin: and I girded thee about with fine linen, & I couered thee with silke.

11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets vpon thine handes, and a chaine on thy necke.

12 And I put a jewel in thy nose, and earrings in thy ears, and a beautifulBy this he shows how he saved his Church, enriched it, and gave it power and dominion to reign.crown upon thy head.

13 Thus wast thou deckt with gold and siluer, and thy rayment was of fine linen, and silke, and broydred worke: thou didest eate fine floure, and honie and oyle, and thou wast very beautifull, and thou didest grow vp into a kingdome.

14 And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty: for it [was] perfect through myHe declares where the dignity of Jerusalem stood: that is, in that the Lord gave them of his beauty and excellency.comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.

15 But thou didstIn abusing my gifts and in putting your confidence in your own wisdom and dignity, which were the opportunities of your idolatry.trust in thy own beauty, and didst play the harlot because of thy renown, and didst pour outThere was no idolatry with which you did not pollute yourself.thy harlotries on every one that passed by; his it was.

16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and didst deck thy high places with various colours,This declares how the idolaters put their chief delight in those things which please the eyes and outward senses.and didst play the harlot upon them: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so].

17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and hastYou have converted my vessels and instruments which I gave you to serve me with to the use of your idols.made to thyself images of men, and hast committed harlotry with them,

18 And tookest thy broydred garments, and coueredst them: and thou hast set mine oyle and my perfume before them.

19 My meate also, which I gaue thee, as fine floure, oyle, and honie, wherewith I fedde thee, thou hast euen set it before them for a sweete sauour: thus it was, saith the Lord God.

20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne to me, and these hast thou sacrificed to them toMeaning by fire, read (Lev_18:21; 2Ki_23:10).be devoured. [Is this] of thy harlotries a small matter,

21 That thou hast slaine my children, and deliuered them to cause them to passe through fire for them?

22 And in all thine abominations and whoredomes thou hast not remembred the dayes of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

23 And beside all thy wickednes (wo, wo vnto thee, saith the Lord God)

24 Thou hast also built vnto thee an hie place, and hast made thee an hie place in euery streete.

25 Thou hast built thine hie place at euery corner of the way, and hast made thy beautie to be abhorred: thou hast opened thy feete to euery one that passed by, & multiplied thy whoredome.

26 Thou hast also committed harlotry with theHe notes the great impiety of this people, who first falling from God to seek help at strange nations also at length embraced their idolatry thinking by it to make their amity more strong.Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast multiplied thy harlotry, to provoke me to anger.

27 Beholde, therefore I did stretche out mine hand ouer thee, and will diminish thine ordinarie, and deliuer thee vnto the will of them that hate thee, euen to the daughters of the Philistims, which are ashamed of thy wicked way.

28 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast insaciable: yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.

29 Thou hast moreouer multiplied thy fornication from the land of Canaan vnto Caldea, and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.

30 Howe weake is thine heart, saith the Lorde God, seeing thou doest all these thinges, euen the worke of a presumptuous whorish woman?

31 In that thou buildest thy eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thy high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot,Meaning that some harlots contemn small rewards but no lovers gave a reward to Israel, but they gave to all others signifying that the idolaters bestow all their substance which they receive from God for his glory to serve their vile abominations.in that thou scornest hire;

32 But as a wife that playeth the harlot, and taketh others for her husband:

33 They giue giftes to all other whores, but thou giuest giftes vnto all thy louers, and rewardest them, that they may come vnto thee on euery side for thy fornication.

34 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy fornications, neither the like fornication shall be after thee: for in that thou giuest a rewarde, and no reward is giuen vnto thee, therefore thou art contrary.

35 Wherefore, O harlot, heare the worde of the Lord.

36 Thus sayeth the Lorde God, Because thy shame was powred out, and thy filthinesse discouered through thy fornications with thy louers, and with all the idoles of thine abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didest offer vnto them,

37 Behold, therefore I will gather allEgyptians, Assyrians and Chaldeans whom you took to be your lovers will come and destroy you, (Eze_23:9).thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all [them] that thou hast loved, with all [them] that thou hast hated; I will even gather them on every side against thee, and will uncover thy nakedness to them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

38 And I will judge thee, as women thatI will judge you to death as the adulterers and murderers.break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

39 I will also giue thee into their handes, and they shal destroy thine hie place, and shall breake downe thine hie places. They shall strippe thee also out of thy clothes, and shall take thy faire iewels, and leaue thee naked and bare.

40 They shall also bring vp a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swordes.

41 And they shall burne vp thine houses with fire, and execute iudgements vpon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou shalt giue no reward any more.

42 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and myI will utterly destroy you and so my jealousy will cease.jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast provoked me in all these [things]; behold, therefore I also willI have punished your faults but you would not repent.recompense thy way upon [thy] head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thy abominations.

44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use [this] proverb against thee, saying, As [is] the mother,As the Canaanites, the Hittites and others were your predecessors, so are you their successors.[so is] her daughter.

45 Thou [art] thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou [art] the sister of thyThat is, of Samaria and Sodom.sisters, who lothed their husbands and their children: your mother [was] an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

46 And thy elder sister [is] Samaria, she and herThat is, her cities.daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, [is] Sodom and her daughters.

47 Yet hast thouBut done far worse.not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.

48 As I liue, saith the Lorde God, Sodom thy sister hath not done, neither shee nor her daughters, as thou hast done and thy daughters.

49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom,He alleges these four vices, pride, excess, idleness and contempt of the poor as four principal causes of such abomination, wherefore they were so horribly punished, (Gen_19:24).pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

50 But they were hautie, and committed abomination before mee: therefore I tooke them away, as pleased me.

51 NeitherWhich worshipped the calves in Bethel and Dan.hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thy abominations more than they, and hastYou are so wicked that in respect to you Sodom and Samaria were just.justified thy sisters in all thy abominations which thou hast done.

52 Therefore thou which hast iustified thy sisters, beare thine owne shame for thy sinnes, that thou hast committed more abominable then they which are more righteous then thou art: be thou therefore confounded also, and beare thy shame, seeing that thou hast iustified thy sisters.

53 When I shall bring againThis he speaks in comparison seeing that he would restore Jerusalem when Sodom would be restored, that is, never: and this is meant of the greatest part of the Jews.their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then [will I bring again] the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:

54 That thou mayest bear thy own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art aIn that you have shown yourself worse than they and yet thought to escape punishment.comfort to them.

55 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state,Meaning that it would never come to pass.then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former state.

56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentionedYou would not call her punishment to mind when you were aloft, to learn by her example to fear my judgments.by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,

57 Before thy wickedness wasThat is, till you were brought under by the Syrians and Philistines, (2Ch_28:19).uncovered, as at the time of [thy] reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all [that are] aroundWhich joined with the Syrians, or compassed about Jerusalem.her, the daughters of the Philistines, who despise thee on every side.

58 Thou hast borne therefore thy wickednesse and thine abomination, saith the Lord.

59 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, who hast despised theWhen you broke the covenant which was made between you and me, as in (Eze_16:8).oath in breaking the covenant.

60 Nevertheless I willThat is, out of mercy and love I will pity you and so stand by my covenant though you have deserved the contrary.remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish to thee an everlasting covenant.

61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receiveBy which he shows that among the most wicked, he always had some seed of his Church, which he would cause to bear fruit in due time: and here he declares how he will call the Gentiles.thy sisters, thy elder and thy younger: and I will give them to thee for daughters, but notBut of my free mercy.by thy covenant.

62 And I wil establish my couenant with thee, and thou shalt knowe that I am the Lord,

63 That thou mayest remember, and beThis declares what fruits God's mercies work in his, that is, sorrow and repentance for their former life.confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.

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