As for your birth, your umbilical cord wasn’t cut on the day you were born,(A) and you weren’t washed clean[a] with water. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.(B) No one cared enough about you to do even one of these things out of compassion for you. But you were thrown out into the open field because you were despised on the day you were born.

“‘I passed by you and saw you thrashing around in your blood, and I said to you as you lay in your blood, “Live!” Yes, I said to you as you lay in your blood, “Live!” [b]

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Footnotes

  1. 16:4 Hb obscure
  2. 16:6 Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr omit Yes, I said to you as you lay in your blood, “Live!”

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