(A)I made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became tall (B)and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet (C)you were naked and bare.

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(A)But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.

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10 The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, (A)you are today as numerous as the stars of heaven.

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10 (A)I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.[a] 11 (B)And I adorned you with ornaments and (C)put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck. 12 And I put a ring on your nose and 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 and silk and embroidered cloth. (D)You ate fine flour and honey and oil. (E)You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:10 Or with rich fabric

You shall be (A)a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord,
    and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

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17 “But (A)as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, (B)the people increased and multiplied in Egypt

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Therefore (A)I will take back
    my grain in its time,
    and my wine in its season,
and (B)I will take away my wool and my flax,
    which were to cover her nakedness.
10 Now (C)I will uncover her lewdness
    in the sight of her lovers,
    and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.

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lest (A)I strip her naked
    and make her as (B)in the day she was born,
and (C)make her like a wilderness,
    and make her like a parched land,
    and kill her with thirst.

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22 And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember (A)the days of your youth, (B)when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.

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16 You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.[a]

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  1. Ezekiel 16:16 The meaning of this Hebrew sentence is uncertain

10 (A)I will greatly rejoice in the Lord;
    my soul shall exult in my God,
(B)for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;
    he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself (C)like a priest with a beautiful headdress,
    (D)and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

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Let Israel (A)be glad in (B)his Maker;
    let the children of Zion rejoice in their (C)King!
Let them praise his name with (D)dancing,
    making melody to him with (E)tambourine and (F)lyre!
For the Lord (G)takes pleasure in his people;
    he (H)adorns the humble with salvation.

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14 He has (A)raised up a horn for his people,
    (B)praise for all his saints,
    for the people of Israel who are (C)near to him.
(D)Praise the Lord!

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20 He (A)has not dealt thus with any other nation;
    they do not know his rules.[a]
(B)Praise the Lord!

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  1. Psalm 147:20 Or his just decrees

For the Lord has (A)chosen Jacob for himself,
    Israel as his (B)own possession.

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21 And he said, (A)“Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I (B)return. The Lord (C)gave, and the Lord has taken away; (D)blessed be the name of the Lord.”

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18 Even (A)when they had made for themselves a golden[a] calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ (B)and had committed great blasphemies, 19 you (C)in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. (D)The pillar of cloud to lead them in the way did not depart from them by day, (E)nor the pillar of fire by night to light for them the way by which they should go. 20 (F)You gave your good Spirit to instruct them (G)and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst. 21 (H)Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

22 “And you gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner. (I)So they took possession of the land of Sihon king of Heshbon (J)and the land of Og king of Bashan. 23 You multiplied their children (K)as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess. 24 (L)So the descendants went in and possessed the land, (M)and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hand, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would. 25 And they captured (N)fortified cities and (O)a rich land, and took possession of (P)houses full of all good things, cisterns already hewn, vineyards, olive orchards and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled (Q)and became fat and delighted themselves in (R)your great goodness.

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  1. Nehemiah 9:18 Hebrew metal

26 (A)“There is none like God, O (B)Jeshurun,
    (C)who rides through the heavens to your help,
    through the skies in his majesty.
27 The eternal God is your (D)dwelling place,[a]
    and underneath are the everlasting arms.[b]
And he thrust out the enemy before you
    and said, ‘Destroy.’
28 So Israel lived in safety,
    (E)Jacob lived (F)alone,[c]
in a land of grain and wine,
    whose heavens drop down dew.
29 Happy are you, O Israel! (G)Who is like you,
    a people (H)saved by the Lord,
(I)the shield of your help,
    and the sword of your triumph!
Your enemies shall come fawning to you,
    and you shall tread upon their backs.”

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  1. Deuteronomy 33:27 Or a dwelling place
  2. Deuteronomy 33:27 Revocalization of verse 27 yields He subdues the ancient gods, and shatters the forces of old
  3. Deuteronomy 33:28 Hebrew the abode of Jacob was alone

10 “He found him (A)in a desert land,
    and in the howling waste of the wilderness;
he (B)encircled him, he cared for him,
    he (C)kept him as the apple of his eye.
11 (D)Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,
    that flutters over its young,
spreading out its wings, catching them,
    bearing them on its pinions,
12 (E)the Lord alone guided him,
    (F)no foreign god was with him.
13 (G)He made him ride on the high places of the land,
    and he ate the produce of the field,
and he suckled him with (H)honey out of the rock,
    and (I)oil out of (J)the flinty rock.
14 Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,
    with fat[a] of lambs,
rams of Bashan and goats,
    with the very finest[b] of the wheat—
    and you drank foaming wine made from (K)the blood of the grape.

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  1. Deuteronomy 32:14 That is, with the best
  2. Deuteronomy 32:14 Hebrew with the kidney fat

And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so (A)righteous as all this law that I set before you today?

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37 And the (A)people of Israel journeyed from (B)Rameses to Succoth, (C)about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.

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22 but each woman shall ask of her neighbor, and any woman who lives in her house, for (A)silver and gold jewelry, and for clothing. You shall put them on your sons and on your daughters. So (B)you shall plunder the Egyptians.”

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17 I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring (A)as the stars of heaven and (B)as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess (C)the gate of his[a] enemies,

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  1. Genesis 22:17 Or their

17 (A)For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, (B)blind, and naked. 18 I counsel you (C)to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and (D)white garments so that you may clothe yourself and (E)the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, (F)so that you may see.

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