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according to the multitude of his idols;

5 That I may take the house of Israel in their own beart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.











16 Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.





21 For thus saith the Lord God; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?

22 Yet, behold, therein shall be

left a remnant that shall be brought I 8 And I will make the land desoforth, both sons and daughters : be- || late, because they have committed hold, they shall come forth unto a trespass, saith the Lord God. you, and ye shall see their way and their doings : and ye shall be com

CHAP. XVI. forted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even AGAIN the word of the Lord concerning all that I have brought came unto me, saying, upon it.

2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem 23 And they shall comfort you, to know her abominations, when ye see their ways and their 3 And say, Thus saith the Lord doings: and ye shall know that I God unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and have not done without cause all thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; that I have done in it, saith the thy father was an Amorite, and thy Lord God.

mother an Hittite.

4 And as for thy nativity, in the CHAP. XV.

day thou wast born thy navel was

not cut, neither wast thou washed AND the word of the LORD came in water to supple thee; thou wast unto me, saying,

not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. 2 Son of man, what is the vine 5 None eye pitied thee, to do any tree more than any tree, or than a of these unto thee, to have compasbranch which is among the trees of sion upon thee; but thou wast cast the forest?

out in the open field, to the lothing 3 Shall wood be taken thereof to of thy person, in the day that thou do any work? or will men take a pin wast born. of it to hang any vessel thereon ?

6 And when I passed by thee, 4 Behold, it is cast into the fire and saw thee polluted in thine own for fuel; the fire devoureth both the blood, I said unto thee when thou ends of it, and the midst of it is wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said burned. Is it meet for any work? unto thee when thou wast in thy

5 Behold, when it was whole, it blood, Live. was meet for no work: how much o I have caused thee to multiply less shall it be meet yet for any as the bud of the field, and thou work, when the fire hath devoured hast increased and waxen great, and it, and it is burned ?

thou art come to excellent orna6 Therefore thus saith the Lord ments: thy breasts are fashioned, God; As the vine tree among the and thine hair is grown, whereas trees of the forest, which I have thou wast naked and bare. given to the fire for fuel, so will I 8 Now when I passed by thee, give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. and looked upon thee, behoid, thy

7 And I will set my face against time was the time of love; and I them; they shall go out from one spread my skirt over thee, and cofire, and another fire shall devour vered thy nakedness: yea, I sware them; and ye shall know that I am unto thee, and entered into a covethe Lord, when I set my face a nant with thee, saith the Lord God, gainst them.

and thou becamest mine.




















28 Thou hast played the whore

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also with the Assyrians, because I thou hast hated; I will even gather thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast them round about against thee, and played the harlot with them, and will discover thy nakedness unto yet couldest not be satisfied. . them, that they may see all thy

29 Thou hast moreover multi nakedness. plied thy fornication in the land of 38 And I will judge thee, as woCanaan unto Chaldea ; and yet thou men that break wedlock and shed wast not satisfied herewith.

blood are judged; and I will give 30 How weak is thine heart, thee blood in fury and jealousy. saith the Lord God, seeing thou 39 And I will also give thee into doest all these things, the work of their hand, and they shall throw an imperious whorish woman ; down thine eminent place, and shall • 31 In that thou buildest thine break down thy high places: they eminent place in the head of every shall strip thee also of thy clothes, way, and makest thine high place and shall take thy fair jewels, and in every street; and hast not been leave thee naked and bare. as an harlot, in that thou scornest 40 They shall also bring up a com

pany against thee, and they shall 32 But as a wife that committeth stone thee with stones, and thrust adultery, which taketh strangers in thee through with their swords. stead of her husband !

41. And they shall burn thine 33 They give gifts to all whores : houses with fire, and execute judgbut thou givest thy gifts to all thy ments upon thee in the sight of lovers, and hirest them, that they many women: and I will cause thee may come unto thee on every side to cease from playing the harlot, for thy whoredom.

and thou also shalt give no hire any 34 And the contrary is in thee more. from other women in thy whore 42 So will I make my fury toward doms, whereas none followeth thee thee to rest, and my jealousy shall to commit whoredoms: and in that depart from thee, and I will be thou givest a reward, and no reward quiet, and will be no more angry.. is given unto thee, therefore thou 43 Because thou hast not rememart contrary.

bered the days of thy youth, but 35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the hast fretted me in all these things ; word of the LORD:

behold, therefore I also will recom36 Thus saith the Lord God; pense thy way upon thine head, saith Because thy filthiness was poured the Lord God: and thou shalt not out, and thy nakedness discovered commit this lewdness above all through thy whoredoms with thy thine abominations. lovers, and with all the idols of thy · 44 Behold, every one that useth abominations, and by the blood of proverbs shall use this proverb athy children, which thou didst give gainst thee, saying, As is the mounto them;

ther, so is her daughter. 37 Behold, therefore I will gather 45 Thou art thy mother's daughall thy lovers, with whom thou hast ter, that lotheth her husband and taken pleasure, and all them that her children; and thou art the sister thou hast loved, with all them that ll of thy sisters, which lothed their






















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