and say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an (A)Amorite and your mother a (B)Hittite. And as for your birth, (C)on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, (D)but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, (E)on the day that you were born.

“And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing (F)in your blood, I said to you (G)in your blood, ‘Live!’ I said to you (H)in your blood, ‘Live!’

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