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A Prophecy Confronting Jerusalem

16 This message came to me from the Lord: “Son of Man, make known to Israel her detestable practices. You are to declare, ‘This is what the Lord God says to Jerusalem: “Your birth place[a] was the territory that belonged to the Canaanites. Your father was an Ammonite and your mother was a Hittite. Now as to your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord wasn’t cut. You weren’t washed with water to clean you, and nobody rubbed you with salt. And it’s certain that you weren’t wrapped in strips of cloth. Nobody pitied you to do any of these things for you, and nobody showed you any compassion. You were tossed outside on the ground, because you[b] were detested from the day you were born.

“‘“When I passed by you, I saw you kicking around, covered in your own blood. That’s when I told you, ‘Live!’—while you were wallowing in your blood. I commanded you to live, even as you lay there in your own blood. I made you increase like sprouting grain[c] in the field. As a result, you multiplied greatly. Eventually, you reached the age when young women start wearing jewelry. Your breasts were formed, your hair had grown, but you were still bare and naked.”’”

God’s Betrothal to Jerusalem

“When I passed by you again, I looked at you, and noticed that it was your proper time for love. I spread my cloak[d] over you to cover your nakedness. I made a solemn promise to you and entered into a covenant with you,” declares the Lord God. “You belong to me. I bathed you with water, rinsed your own blood from you, and anointed you with oil. 10 Then I covered you with embroidered clothing, clothed your feet with leather sandals, wrapped[e] you with fine linen, and dressed you in silk. 11 I adorned you with jewels, placing bracelets on your hand and necklaces on your neck. 12 I put a ring in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a crown encrusted with jewels on your head. 13 You were adorned with gold, silver, clothing of fine linen, silk, and embroidery. You ate food made from the finest flour, honey, and olive oil. You were exceedingly beautiful, attaining royal status. 14 Your fame[f] spread throughout the nations because of your beauty. You were perfectly beautiful due to my splendor with which I endowed you,” declares the Lord God.

Jerusalem’s Arrogant Unfaithfulness

15 “But you trusted in your beauty. You did what whores do, as a result of your fame. You passed out your sexual favors[g] to anyone who passed by, giving yourself to anyone. 16 You took some of your clothes and made gaily-colored high places and prostituted yourself all around them—something which had never happened before nor will ever happen again.

17 “You also took your fine jewelry—including my gold and my silver that I had given you. Then you made for yourself male images and had sex with them! 18 You took your embroidered gowns and made clothes to cover them. Then you offered my olive oil and incense to them.

19 “Not only that, you took the food I gave you—my fine flour, olive oil, and honey with which I fed you, and you offered[h] them to those gods[i] in order to appease them.[j] That’s exactly what happened,” says the Lord God. 20 “Then you took your sons and daughters whom you bore for me and sacrificed them for your idols to eat. As though your prostitutions were an insignificant thing, 21 you also slaughtered my sons and offered them to idols, incinerating them in fire.[k] 22 Throughout all of your detestable practices and immorality, you never did remember your earlier life when you were bare, naked, and wallowing in your own blood.”

The Unfaithfulness of God’s People

23 “How terrible! How terrible it will be for all of your wickedness!” declares the Lord God. 24 “You built raised mounds and high places for yourself on every plaza. 25 At every street corner you made your beauty abhorrent when you made yourself available for sex to[l] anyone who was passing by. By doing this, you kept on committing more and more immorality. 26 Then you committed immorality with your neighbors, the Egyptians,[m] with perverted lust,[n] and by doing so you fornicated even more, provoking me to anger.

27 “Therefore, look out! I’ve reached out to oppose you. I withdrew your rations and delivered you[o] to those Philistine women who hate you. Even they were embarrassed at your wicked ways! 28 You committed immorality with the Assyrians,[p] because you still weren’t satisfied. You committed immorality with them, but you still weren’t satisfied. 29 You committed even more immorality with that land of the merchants, the Chaldeans. But you weren’t satisfied even with these!

30 “How weak is your heart,” declares the Lord God, “when you committed all of these deeds, the acts of an imperious whore! 31 When you built your mound on every street corner and constructed your high place at every plaza, you weren’t like a common prostitute, in that you’ve insulted the wages of a prostitute 32 who commits adultery, preferring a stranger over her husband!

33 “All prostitutes receive gifts, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, then you bribe them to come to you from everywhere to get your sexual favors![q] 34 You’re different from other women when you commit immorality—no one can match you in that![r] After all, you pay fees, but no fee is given to you. You’re certainly different!”

The Coming Punishment

35 “Therefore listen to this message from the Lord, you whore! 36 This is what the Lord God says: ‘Because your lust has been poured out and your nakedness has been uncovered by your acts of fornication with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols and the blood of your sons, whom you offered to them, 37 therefore, watch out! I’m about to gather all your lovers from whom you’ve received your pleasure, everyone whom you’ve loved, and those whom you’ve hated. I’ll gather them together to oppose you from every side, and they’ll uncover your nakedness in their presence. Then they’ll see you completely naked. 38 I’ll judge you with the same standards by which I issue verdicts against a woman who commits adultery and murder.[s] I’ll avenge the blood you’ve shed with impassioned wrath.[t]

39 “I’ll also deliver you into their control, and they’ll break down your mounds, tear down your high places, strip off your clothes, remove your fine jewels, and then they’ll leave you stark naked! 40 They’ll bring a mob against you to stone you to death[u] and cut you into pieces with their swords. 41 Then they’ll burn your houses and carry out my sentence[v] against you in the sight of many women.

“That’s how I’ll make you stop your prostitution so you won’t pay any prostitute’s fees anymore. 42 I’ll stop being angry with you, and I’ll cease being jealous.[w] I’ll be calm and not be indignant anymore. 43 Because you didn’t remember the time when you were young, but instead you provoked me to anger because of all these things, watch out! I’m going to bring your behavior back to haunt[x] you!” declares the Lord God. “Didn’t you do this wicked thing, in addition to all your other[y] detestable practices?”

Like Mother, Like Daughter

44 “Now, everyone who likes proverbs will quote this proverb about you, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’ 45 You’re the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You’re the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children.

“Your mother was a Hittite and your father was an Amorite. 46 Your elder sister was Samaria. She and her daughters lived in the north,[z] while your younger sister who lived in the south[aa] with her daughters was Sodom. 47 It wasn’t just that you lived like they did and committed their detestable practices, but in just a little while your behavior led you to become more corrupt than they were!”

Sins of Sodom

48 “As I live,” declares the Lord God, “your sister Sodom and her daughters didn’t do what you and your daughters have done. 49 Look! This was the sin of your sister Sodom and her daughters: Pride, too much food, undisturbed peace, and failure to help[ab] the poor and needy. 50 In their arrogance, they committed detestable practices in my presence, so when I saw it, I removed them. 51 Samaria didn’t commit half of your sins—you practiced more detestable deeds than they did! You’ve caused your sister to be more righteous than you, because of the detestable practices that you’ve committed. 52 So now, bear your own shame as you mediate for your sisters. The sins that you’ve committed are more detestable than theirs. That makes them more righteous than you. Indeed, be ashamed and bear your reproach, because you’ve made your sisters to be more righteous than you.”

A Change in Circumstances

53 “I’ll bring them back from their captivity—that is, from the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, along with the captivity of Samaria and her daughters and the captivity of your captives among them. 54 But you’ll continue to bear your own reproach and be humiliated for everything that you’ve done. You’ll be a comfort to them. 55 Your sister Sodom and her daughters will be restored to their former status. Samaria and her daughters will be restored to their former status. Then you and your daughters will be restored to your former status.

56 “When you were being so arrogant, you never once mentioned your sister Sodom 57 before your wickedness was revealed. Now you’ve become an object of derision to the inhabitants[ac] of Aram and its neighbors, including the Philistines[ad]—all those around you who despise you. 58 You are to bear the punishment of your wickedness and detestable practices,” declares the Lord, 59 “since the Lord God says, ‘I’ll deal with you according to what you’ve done, when you despised your oath by breaking the covenant.

60 “‘Meanwhile, as for me, I’ll remember my covenant with you from when you were young, because I’ll establish an eternal covenant with you. 61 Then you’ll remember your behavior and be ashamed when you greet your sisters—your elder sister and your younger sister. I’ll give them to you as daughters, but not on account of my covenant with you. 62 I’ll establish my covenant with you, and then you’ll know that I am the Lord. 63 Then you will remember, be ashamed, and you won’t open your mouth anymore due to humiliation when I will have made atonement for you for everything that you’ve done,’ declares the Lord God.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:3 Lit. Your origin and birth
  2. Ezekiel 16:5 Lit. your soul
  3. Ezekiel 16:7 Lit. like that which sprouts
  4. Ezekiel 16:8 Lit. wings
  5. Ezekiel 16:10 Lit. bound
  6. Ezekiel 16:14 Lit. name
  7. Ezekiel 16:15 Lit. adulteries
  8. Ezekiel 16:19 Or set
  9. Ezekiel 16:19 The Heb. lacks to those gods
  10. Ezekiel 16:19 Lit. gods as a pleasing aroma
  11. Ezekiel 16:21 The Heb. lacks in fire
  12. Ezekiel 16:25 Lit. you parted your legs for
  13. Ezekiel 16:26 Lit. sons of Egypt
  14. Ezekiel 16:26 Lit. with great flesh
  15. Ezekiel 16:27 Lit. soul
  16. Ezekiel 16:28 Lit. sons of Assyria
  17. Ezekiel 16:33 Lit. your fornications
  18. Ezekiel 16:34 Lit. in how you commit immorality
  19. Ezekiel 16:38 Lit. and one who sheds blood
  20. Ezekiel 16:38 Lit. wrath and passion
  21. Ezekiel 16:40 Lit. death with stones
  22. Ezekiel 16:41 Lit. and execute judgment
  23. Ezekiel 16:42 Lit. I’ll turn aside my jealousy from you
  24. Ezekiel 16:43 The Heb. lacks haunt
  25. Ezekiel 16:43 The Heb. lacks other
  26. Ezekiel 16:46 Lit. lived on your left
  27. Ezekiel 16:46 Lit. lived on your right
  28. Ezekiel 16:49 Lit. to strengthen the hand of
  29. Ezekiel 16:57 Lit. daughters
  30. Ezekiel 16:57 Lit. the daughters of the

God’s Covenant Grace to Unfaithful and Rebellious Israel

16 And the word of Yahweh came[a] to me, saying,[b] “Son of man,[c] make known to Jerusalem its detestable things, and you must say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were from the land of the Canaanites,[d] your father was an Amorite, and your mother was a Hittite. And as for your birth, on the day you were born[e] your umbilical cord was not cut, and you were not thoroughly washed clean with water,[f] and you were not thoroughly rubbed with salt,[g] and you were not carefully wrapped in strips of cloth.[h] No eye took pity on you[i] to do to you one of these things to show compassion for you, and you were thrown into the open field[j] in their despising of you on the day you were born.[k]

“‘And I passed by you, and I saw you kicking about in your blood, and I said to you in your blood, “Live! Grow up;[l] I will make you like a plant of the field.” And you grew up, and you became tall and reached full womanhood.[m] Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown, but you were naked and bare.

“‘And I passed by you, and I saw you, and look, your time of lovemaking had come,[n] and so I spread out my hem over you, and I covered your nakedness, and I swore to you, and I entered into[o] a covenant with you,’ declares[p] the Lord Yahweh, ‘and you became mine.[q] And I washed you with water, and I rinsed off your blood from on you, and I anointed you with oil. 10 And I clothed you with beautiful finished cloth, and I put sandals on you of fine leather, and I bound you in fine linen, and I covered you with costly fabric. 11 And I adorned you with ornaments,[r] and I put a bracelet on your arms and a necklace on your neck. 12 And I put an ornamental ring on your nose and earrings on your ears and a beautiful crown[s] on your head. 13 And you adorned yourself with gold and silver, and your clothing was fine linen and costly fabric and beautiful finished cloth; you ate finely milled flour and honey and olive oil, and you became exceedingly beautiful; you were fit to be a queen.[t] 14 And a name went out for you among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect because of my majesty that I bestowed on you,’ declares[u] the Lord Yahweh. 15 ‘And you trusted in your beauty, and you prostituted on account of your name, and you poured out your fornication on every one passing by, saying, “Let it be his.” 16 And you took from your clothes and you made for yourself colorful[v] shrines, and you prostituted on them; this had not happened before,[w] and it will not continue to happen.[x] 17 And you took your beautiful jewelry[y] made from my gold and from my silver that I had given to you, and you made for yourself male images,[z] and you prostituted with them. 18 And you took the clothes of your beautiful finished cloth, and you covered them and my oil and my incense you set before them.[aa] 19 And my bread that I gave to you, finely milled flour and oil and honey with which I fed you, then you set it before them[ab] as a pleasing odor,[ac] and so it was,’ declares[ad] the Lord Yahweh. 20 ‘And you took your sons and your daughters whom you had borne for me, and you sacrificed them to them to be eaten,[ae] as if your whorings were not enough.[af] 21 And you slaughtered my children, and you gave them to be sacrificed to them.[ag] 22 And in all of your detestable things and your fornication you did not remember the days of your childhood when you were naked and bare,[ah] when you were kicking about in your blood.

23 “‘And then after all of your evil! Woe, woe, to you!’ declares[ai] the Lord Yahweh. 24 ‘And then you built for yourself a mound, and you made for yourself a high place in every public square. 25 At the head of every street you built your high place and you disgraced your beauty and you spread your feet for every passerby, and you increased your whoring. 26 And you prostituted with the Egyptians,[aj] your neighbors who were sexually aroused,[ak] and you increased your fornication to provoke me. 27 And look! I stretched out my hand against you, and I reduced your portion, and I gave you into[al] the desire of your haters, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed because of your lewd conduct.[am] 28 And you prostituted with the Assyrians[an] on account of your insatiable lust,[ao] and you prostituted with them, and still you were not satisfied. 29 And you increased your fornication to the land of traders,[ap] to Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied. 30 How hot with fever was your heart!’ declares[aq] the Lord Yahweh. ‘When you did[ar] all of these actions of a headstrong female prostitute,[as] 31 when you built[at] your mound at the head of every street and your high place you made on every street, yet[au] you were[av] not like a prostitute, as you were scorning your harlot’s wages. 32 O, adulterous woman! In the place of her husband she received strangers. 33 To all prostitutes they give a fee, but you, you gave your gifts to all of your lovers, and you bribed them to come to you from all around in your whorings! 34 And it was the opposite with you from the other women in your whorings; no one solicited you as a prostitute.[aw] You gave[ax] a harlot’s wages, and a harlot’s wages were not given to you, and so it was just the opposite.

35 “‘Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh. 36 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because of the pouring out of your shame and because your nakedness was revealed in your whoring with your lovers, and on account of all of the idols of your detestable things, and according to the blood of your children whom you gave to them, 37 therefore, look! I am gathering all of your lovers whom you were pleased about,[ay] and all of whom you loved in addition to all of whom you hated, and I will gather them against you from everywhere,[az] and I will uncover your nakedness to them, and they will see all of your nakedness. 38 And I will judge you with the judgment of women committing adultery and shedding blood, and I will give you the blood of rage and jealousy. 39 And I will give you into their hand, and they will demolish your mound, and they will break down your high places, and they will strip you of your clothes, and they will take your beautiful jewelry,[ba] and they will leave you naked and bare. 40 And they will bring up against you a crowd, and they will stone you with stones,[bb] and they will cut you to pieces with their swords. 41 And they will burn your houses with fire, and they will execute against you judgments before[bc] many women, and I will stop you from prostitution, and also a harlot’s wages you will not give[bd] again. 42 And I will satisfy my rage on you, and my jealousy will turn away from you, and I will be calm, and I will not be angry any longer. 43 Because[be] you did not remember[bf] the days of your childhood and you made me angry with all of these. And in turn I, look, I will return your way upon your head,’ declares[bg] the Lord Yahweh, ‘and did[bh] you not do wickedness[bi] in addition to all of your detestable things? 44 Look! Everyone quoting a proverb[bj] against you, he will quote, saying,[bk] ‘Like her mother is her daughter!’ 45 You are a daughter of your mother who abhorred her husband and her children, and you are a sister of your sisters who abhorred their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father was an Amorite. 46 And your elder sister, she is Samaria, and her daughters, who are dwelling on your north, and your younger sister is the one dwelling on your south; she is Sodom and her daughters. 47 And you have not only gone in their ways, but[bl] you also did according to their detestable things. In such a short time[bm] you behaved more corruptly than they in all of your ways. 48 As surely as I live,’[bn] declares[bo] the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely your sister Sodom and her daughters did not do as[bp] you and your daughters did. 49 Look! This was the iniquity of Sodom, your sister: Pride, abundance of food, and prosperous ease[bq] was to her and to her daughters, and she did not sustain the needy and the poor.[br] 50 And they were proud, and they did a detestable thing before me,[bs] and I removed them because[bt] I saw it. 51 And Samaria did not sin according to even half of your sins,[bu] and you caused your detestable things to increase more than they, and you made your sister righteous in comparison with all of your detestable things that you did.[bv] 52 Also,[bw] you bear your disgrace, by which you furnished justification to your sisters[bx] through your sins by which you acted more abominably than they; they were more righteous than you, and also,[by] you be ashamed and bear your disgrace through your making your sister righteous.

53 And I will restore their fortune, the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and even the fortunes of your captivity in the midst of them, 54 in order that you may bear your disgrace and you may be put to shame because of all that you did at your consoling them. 55 And as for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, they will return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters, they will return to their former state, and you and your daughters will return to your former state. 56 And was not Sodom, your sister, a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride 57 before[bz] your evil was uncovered? It was like the time of the scorn of the daughters of Aram and all those around her, and of the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who are despising you. 58 Your wickedness and your detestable things, you, you must bear them,’ declares[ca] Yahweh. 59 ‘For thus says the Lord Yahweh: And I will do it[cb] to you according to what you have done,[cc] who despised the oath to break covenant. 60 And I, I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish with you an everlasting covenant.[cd] 61 And you will remember your ways, and you will be ashamed when you take your sisters, both the older and the younger,[ce] and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of your covenant. 62 And I, I will establish my covenant with you, and you will know that I am Yahweh, 63 in order that you will remember, and you will be ashamed, and you will not open your mouth again[cf] because of[cg] your disgrace when I forgive you for all that you have done!’” declares[ch] the Lord Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:1 Literally “was”
  2. Ezekiel 16:1 Literally “to say”
  3. Ezekiel 16:2 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
  4. Ezekiel 16:3 Hebrew “Canaanite”
  5. Ezekiel 16:4 Literally “on the day of being born you”
  6. Ezekiel 16:4 Literally “with water not you were cleansed for cleansing”
  7. Ezekiel 16:4 Literally “being rubbed with salt you were not rubbed with salt”
  8. Ezekiel 16:4 Literally “being wrapped in strips of cloth not you were wrapped in strips of cloth”
  9. Ezekiel 16:5 Literally “not took pity on you an eye”
  10. Ezekiel 16:5 Literally “to the face of the field”
  11. Ezekiel 16:5 Literally “on the day of being born you”
  12. Ezekiel 16:7 Or “A myriad I have made you
  13. Ezekiel 16:7 Literally “ornament of ornaments”
  14. Ezekiel 16:8 Literally “your time was the time of lovemaking”
  15. Ezekiel 16:8 Hebrew “in”
  16. Ezekiel 16:8 Literally “declaration of”
  17. Ezekiel 16:8 Literally “and you were to me”
  18. Ezekiel 16:11 Hebrew “ornament”
  19. Ezekiel 16:12 Literally “a crown of splendor”
  20. Ezekiel 16:13 Literally “you could succeed to queenship”
  21. Ezekiel 16:14 Literally “declaration of”
  22. Ezekiel 16:16 Or “gaudy”
  23. Ezekiel 16:16 Literally “Not were happening”
  24. Ezekiel 16:16 Literally “and not it will be”; Hebrew text unclear
  25. Ezekiel 16:17 Literally “the jewelry of splendor”
  26. Ezekiel 16:17 Literally “images of a male”
  27. Ezekiel 16:18 Literally “to the face of them”
  28. Ezekiel 16:19 Literally “to the face of them”
  29. Ezekiel 16:19 Literally “a scent of an incense”
  30. Ezekiel 16:19 Literally “declaration of”
  31. Ezekiel 16:20 Or “consumed”
  32. Ezekiel 16:20 Literally “it was too little from your whorings”
  33. Ezekiel 16:21 Literally “to cause them to cross over to them”
  34. Ezekiel 16:22 Literally “at your being naked and bare”
  35. Ezekiel 16:23 Literally “declaration of”
  36. Ezekiel 16:26 Literally “sons/children of Egypt”
  37. Ezekiel 16:26 Literally “those being great of flesh”
  38. Ezekiel 16:27 Hebrew “in”
  39. Ezekiel 16:27 Literally “your way of life
  40. Ezekiel 16:28 Literally “sons/children of Assyria”
  41. Ezekiel 16:28 Literally “of no your satisfaction”
  42. Ezekiel 16:29 Hebrew “trader”
  43. Ezekiel 16:30 Literally “declaration of”
  44. Ezekiel 16:30 Literally “at/in you to do”
  45. Ezekiel 16:30 Literally “deeds of a woman prostituting domineering”
  46. Ezekiel 16:31 Literally “at/in building your”
  47. Ezekiel 16:31 Hebrew “and”
  48. Ezekiel 16:31 According to the reading tradition (Qere)
  49. Ezekiel 16:34 Literally “and after you not he solicited a prostitute”
  50. Ezekiel 16:34 Literally “And at your giving”
  51. Ezekiel 16:37 Literally “whom you were pleased about them”
  52. Ezekiel 16:37 Literally “all around”
  53. Ezekiel 16:39 Literally “the objects of your splendor”
  54. Ezekiel 16:40 Hebrew “stone”
  55. Ezekiel 16:41 Literally “to the eyes of”
  56. Ezekiel 16:41 Or “pay”
  57. Ezekiel 16:43 Literally “because that”
  58. Ezekiel 16:43 According to the reading tradition (Qere) with BHS
  59. Ezekiel 16:43 Literally “declaration of”
  60. Ezekiel 16:43 According to the reading tradition (Qere); cf. BHS
  61. Ezekiel 16:43 Literally “the wickedness”
  62. Ezekiel 16:44 Literally “proverbing a proverb”
  63. Ezekiel 16:44 Literally “to say”
  64. Ezekiel 16:47 Or “and”
  65. Ezekiel 16:47 Literally “as few little and”
  66. Ezekiel 16:48 Literally “live I”
  67. Ezekiel 16:48 Literally “declaration of”
  68. Ezekiel 16:48 Hebrew “as that”
  69. Ezekiel 16:49 Literally “and ease of granting relief”
  70. Ezekiel 16:49 Literally “And the hand of the needy and the poor not she did take hold of”
  71. Ezekiel 16:50 Literally “to the face of me”
  72. Ezekiel 16:50 Literally “as that”
  73. Ezekiel 16:51 Literally “about/as/like the half of sins your not did she sin”
  74. Ezekiel 16:51 According to the reading tradition (Qere); cf. BHS
  75. Ezekiel 16:52 Or “indeed”
  76. Ezekiel 16:52 Hebrew “sister”
  77. Ezekiel 16:52 Or “indeed”
  78. Ezekiel 16:57 Literally “at not yet”
  79. Ezekiel 16:58 Literally “declaration of”
  80. Ezekiel 16:59 According to the reading tradition (Qere)
  81. Ezekiel 16:59 Literally “as that you have done”
  82. Ezekiel 16:60 Literally “a covenant of eternity”
  83. Ezekiel 16:61 Literally “the older from you to the younger from you”
  84. Ezekiel 16:63 Literally “and not it will be again an opening of mouth”
  85. Ezekiel 16:63 Literally “from the face of”
  86. Ezekiel 16:63 Literally “declaration of”