Ezekiel 16:32
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Ezek 16:32
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~"You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!
Ezek 16:33
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~"Men give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them to come to you from every direction for your harlotries.
Ezek 16:34
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~"Thus you are different from those women in your harlotries, in that no one plays the harlot as you do, because you give money and no money is given you; thus you are different."
Ezek 16:35
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Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD.
Ezek 16:36
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Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your harlotries with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your sons which you gave to idols,
Ezek 16:37
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therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, even all those whom you loved {and} all those whom you hated. So I will gather them against you from every direction and expose your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness.
Ezek 16:38
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~"Thus I will judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Ezek 16:39
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~"I will also give you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and will leave you naked and bare.
Ezek 16:40
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~"They will incite a crowd against you and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
Ezek 16:41
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~"They will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. Then I will stop you from playing the harlot, and you will also no longer pay your lovers.
Ezek 16:42
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~"So I will calm My fury against you and My jealousy will depart from you, and I will be pacified and angry no more.
Ezek 16:43
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~"Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged Me by all these things, behold, I in turn will bring your conduct down on your own head," declares the Lord GOD, "so that you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your {other} abominations.
Ezek 16:44
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"Behold, everyone who quotes proverbs will quote {this} proverb concerning you, saying, `Like mother, like daughter.'
Ezek 16:45
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~"You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You are also the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
Ezek 16:46
Ezek 16:47
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~"Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they.
Ezek 16:48
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~"As I live," declares the Lord GOD, "Sodom, your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
Ezek 16:49
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~"Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.
Ezek 16:50
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~"Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them when I saw {it.}
Ezek 16:51
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~"Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half of your sins, for you have multiplied your abominations more than they. Thus you have made your sisters appear righteous by all your abominations which you have committed.
Ezek 16:52
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~"Also bear your disgrace in that you have made judgment favorable for your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. Yes, be also ashamed and bear your disgrace, in that you made your sisters appear righteous.
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