Ezekiel 16

Ezekiel 16:15

But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.

And now, being thus favoured and graced by me, thou grewest proud of thine own worth, and forgattest me, and gavest thyself over to all uncleanness; and now, being sought to as some famous courtesan, thou hast yielded over thyself to the spiritual fornications of all the nations round about thee.

Ezekiel 16:16

And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.

And thou hast abused my graces unto wantonness: those ornaments of wit, of strength, of wealth, which I had bestowed upon thee, thou hast turned to the countenancing and furtherance of gross idolatries. So also verse 17, and 18, and 19, &c.

Ezekiel 16:25

And hast opened thy feet to every one that passeth by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.

Thou hast communicated in idolatry, with every nation, that hath had any intercourse with thee.

Ezekiel 16:26

Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

Thou hast both renewed leagues, and interchanged idolatries, with the Egyptians, which are noted for monstrous in this impiety; and hast increased thy spiritual whoredoms above measure.

Ezekiel 16:28

Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast insatiable; &c.

The like wickedness hast thou also committed with the Assyrians, as if thy lust after idols were utterly unsatiable. So also verse 29.

Ezekiel 16:30

How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord God, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman!

How hast thou even spent and exhausted thyself with this odious filthiness, saith the Lord; as some notorious and most infamous strumpet!

Ezekiel 16:37

And will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

I will put thee to shame and confusion before the faces of those, which consorted with thee in thine idolatries.

Ezekiel 16:41

And I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.

I will so judge thee, that thou shalt be disabled from any further commission of this spiritual whoredom; and shalt be stripped of any power to give the hire of fornication, to thy mercenary lovers.

Ezekiel 16:42

So will I make my fury toward thee to rest; and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

So will I abundantly satisfy myself with that revenge, which I shall take of thee, as that my fury and jealousy shall be at an end, as having no further object to work upon.

Ezekiel 16:43

Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, &c.

Because thou hast not remembered, both the favours that I did thee and the covenants that thou madest with me in thy youth, but hast provoked me in all these things, I will bring thy deserved judgments upon thee, and will make thee sure enough from adding this lewdness to thine other abominations.

Ezekiel 16:44

Behold, every one that useth procerbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

Thy notorious sins shall be the ordinary by-word, and table-talk of the world, who shall say, As is the mother Canaan, so is the daughter Judah.

Ezekiel 16:45

Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that loatheth her husband and her children: and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which loatheth their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

Thou art just thy mother’s daughter, like her in wickedness and sin: as she, so thou, hast cast off thy God, and hatest all those that pertain unto him; and the whole family of you is all of one and the same strain: thy sister is of no other disposition: your mother, in respect of your manners and condition, was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

Ezekiel 16:46

And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

And thine eldest sister is Samaria, or the Ten Tribes of Israel; she, and those her daughter cities, that lie to the north: and thy younger sister, that dwells to the southward, is Sodom, and the cities appertaining to her.

Ezekiel 16:47

Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: &c.

Yet thou hast not contented thyself to do after the example of their abominations: but, &c.

Ezekiel 16:49

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness, &c.

Behold, these were the most eminent sins of thy sister Sodom, even pride, excess of diet, extreme idleness and security; and want of respect and mercy to the poor and needy, &c.

Ezekiel 16:51

And hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.

Thou hast made thy sisters’ wickednesses to appear small, in comparison of thine.

Ezekiel 16:52

Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they.

Thou, which hast passed thy sentence upon the foul sins of Sodom and Samaria, now make account to undergo the shame and judgment, which thy own greater and more abominable sins have deserved.

Ezekiel 16:53

When I shall bring again 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.

And if the captivity of Sodom, and that of Samaria, and the towns round about them both, shall be ever reversed, then look that thine also, O Judah, shall be so; but, as there is no possibility in their return, so there is none in thine. XVI. 56, 57. For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride, Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about. Thou never thoughtest of the judgment, which I brought upon thy sister Sodom, in raining fire and brimstone upon their heads, while thou wert transported with thy security and pride, before that God, by his inflicted judgments, brought forth thy wickedness to the notice of the world; and before he made thee a reproach to the Syrians, and their neighbouring nations, and to the Philistines, and the people adjoining; all which have despitefully insulted upon thee.

Ezekiel 16:61

Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed; when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.

Then shalt thou bethink thyself, and recal to remembrance those wicked ways wherein thou hast walked, and be ashamed: when thou shalt also adjoin unto thee the Gentiles, as partners of thy happy conversion; whom thou shalt be a means to bring home into my Church, but not by virtue of any covenant of thine, but of my own, which is the New Covenant that I shall make with my chosen under the Gospel.

Ezekiel 16:63

That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame.

That thou mayest remember thy old wickednesses, and be soundly humbled under the sense of them, and not have a word to say for thyself, because of the shame of thy former vileness.