39 I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your shrines and break down (A)your [a]high places. (B)They shall also strip you of your clothes, take your beautiful jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.

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  1. Ezekiel 16:39 Places for pagan worship

Lest (A)I strip her naked
And expose her, as in the day she was (B)born,
And make her like a wilderness,
And set her like a dry land,
And slay her with (C)thirst.

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26 (A)They shall also strip you of your clothes
And take away your beautiful jewelry.

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24 that (A)you also built for yourself a shrine, and (B)made a [a]high place for yourself in every street. 25 You built your high places (C)at the head of every road, and made your beauty to be abhorred. You offered yourself to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your acts of harlotry.

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  1. Ezekiel 16:24 Place for pagan worship

“Therefore I will return and take away
My grain in its time
And My new wine in its season,
And will take back My wool and My linen,
Given to cover her nakedness.
10 Now (A)I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,
And no one shall deliver her from My hand.
11 (B)I will also cause all her mirth to cease,
Her feast days,
Her New Moons,
Her Sabbaths—
All her appointed feasts.

12 “And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,
Of which she has said,
‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me.’
So I will make them a forest,
And the beasts of the field shall eat them.
13 I will punish her
For the days of the Baals to which she burned incense.
She decked herself with her earrings and jewelry,
And went after her lovers;
But Me she forgot,” says the Lord.

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29 (A)They will deal hatefully with you, take away all you have worked for, and (B)leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your harlotry shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your harlotry.

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Jerusalem’s Adultery

31 (A)“You erected your shrine at the head of every road, and built your [a]high place in every street. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned (B)payment.

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  1. Ezekiel 16:31 Place for pagan worship

10 I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of [a]badger skin; I clothed you with fine linen and covered you with silk. 11 I adorned you with ornaments, (A)put bracelets on your wrists, (B)and a chain on your neck. 12 And I put a [b]jewel in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head. 13 Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. (C)You ate pastry of fine flour, honey, and oil. You were exceedingly (D)beautiful, and succeeded to royalty. 14 (E)Your fame went out among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through My splendor which I had bestowed on you,” says the Lord God.

Jerusalem’s Harlotry

15 (F)“But you trusted in your own beauty, (G)played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing by who would have it. 16 (H)You took some of your garments and adorned multicolored [c]high places for yourself, and played the harlot on them. Such things should not happen, nor be. 17 You have also taken your beautiful jewelry from My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images and played the harlot with them. 18 You took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set My oil and My incense before them. 19 Also (I)My food which I gave you—the pastry of fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you—you set it before them as [d]sweet incense; and so it was,” says the Lord God.

20 (J)“Moreover you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your acts of harlotry a small matter,

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  1. Ezekiel 16:10 Or dolphin or dugong
  2. Ezekiel 16:12 Lit. ring
  3. Ezekiel 16:16 Places for pagan worship
  4. Ezekiel 16:19 Or a sweet aroma

22 I will turn My face from them,
And they will defile My secret place;
For robbers shall enter it and defile it.

23 ‘Make a chain,
For (A)the land is filled with crimes of blood,
And the city is full of violence.
24 Therefore I will bring the (B)worst of the Gentiles,
And they will possess their houses;
I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease,
And their holy places shall be (C)defiled.

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Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered;
And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin:
When he makes all the stones of the altar
Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust,
[a]Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand.

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  1. Isaiah 27:9 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities

16 Moreover the Lord says:

“Because the daughters of Zion are haughty,
And walk with [a]outstretched necks
And [b]wanton eyes,
Walking and [c]mincing as they go,
Making a jingling with their feet,
17 Therefore the Lord will strike with (A)a scab
The crown of the head of the daughters of Zion,
And the Lord will (B)uncover their secret parts.”

18 In that day the Lord will take away the finery:
The jingling anklets, the [d]scarves, and the (C)crescents;
19 The pendants, the bracelets, and the veils;
20 The headdresses, the leg ornaments, and the headbands;
The perfume boxes, the charms,
21     and the rings;
The nose jewels,
22     the festal apparel, and the mantles;
The outer garments, the purses,
23     and the mirrors;
The fine linen, the turbans, and the robes.

24 And so it shall be:

Instead of a sweet smell there will be a stench;
Instead of a sash, a rope;
Instead of well-set hair, (D)baldness;
Instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth;
And [e]branding instead of beauty.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 3:16 Head held high
  2. Isaiah 3:16 seductive, ogling
  3. Isaiah 3:16 tripping or skipping
  4. Isaiah 3:18 headbands
  5. Isaiah 3:24 burning scar

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