Ezekiel 16:18
New International Version
And you took your embroidered clothes to put on them, and you offered my oil and incense before them.

New Living Translation
You used the beautifully embroidered clothes I gave you to dress your idols. Then you used my special oil and my incense to worship them.

English Standard Version
And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them.

Berean Standard Bible
You took your embroidered garments to cover them, and you set My oil and incense before them.

King James Bible
And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.

New King James Version
You took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set My oil and My incense before them.

New American Standard Bible
Then you took your colorfully woven cloth and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them.

NASB 1995
“Then you took your embroidered cloth and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them.

NASB 1977
“Then you took your embroidered cloth and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then you took your embroidered cloth and covered them and gave My oil and My incense before them.

Amplified Bible
and you took your embroidered clothing and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them.

Christian Standard Bible
Then you took your embroidered clothing to cover them and set my oil and incense before them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set My oil and incense before them.

American Standard Version
and thou tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them, and didst set mine oil and mine incense before them.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And you took the garments in which you adorned yourself and you covered them, and my oil and my sweet incense you set before them

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And thou didst take thy variegated apparel and didst clothe them, and thou didst set before them mine oil and mine incense.

Contemporary English Version
You dressed them in the clothes you got from me, and you offered them the olive oil and incense I gave you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou tookest thy garments of divers colours, and coveredst them : and settest my oil and my sweet incense before them.

English Revised Version
and thou tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them, and didst set mine oil and mine incense before them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You took off your embroidered clothes and covered the idols with them. You offered my olive oil and incense in their presence.

Good News Translation
You took the embroidered clothes I gave you and put them on the images, and you offered to the images the olive oil and incense I had given you.

International Standard Version
You took your embroidered gowns and made clothes to cover them. Then you offered my olive oil and incense to them.

JPS Tanakh 1917
and thou didst take thy richly woven garments and cover them, and didst set Mine oil and Mine incense before them.

Literal Standard Version
And you take the garments of your embroidery, | And cover them, | And you have set My oil and My incense before them.

Majority Standard Bible
You took your embroidered garments to cover them, and you set My oil and incense before them.

New American Bible
You took your embroidered garments to cover them; my oil and my incense you set before them;

NET Bible
You took your embroidered clothing and used it to cover them; you offered my olive oil and my incense to them.

New Revised Standard Version
and you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them.

New Heart English Bible
and you took your embroidered garments, and covered them, and set my oil and my incense before them.

Webster's Bible Translation
And hast taken thy broidered garments, and covered them: and thou hast set my oil and my incense before them.

World English Bible
You took your embroidered garments, covered them, and set my oil and my incense before them.

Young's Literal Translation
And dost take the garments of thy embroidery, And thou dost cover them, And My oil and My perfume thou hast set before them.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Jerusalem's Unfaithfulness
17You also took the fine jewelry of gold and silver I had given you, and you made male idols with which to prostitute yourself. 18You took your embroidered garments to cover them, and you set My oil and incense before them. 19And you set before them as a pleasing aroma the food I had given you—the fine flour, oil, and honey that I had fed you. That is what happened, declares the Lord GOD.…

Cross References
Ezekiel 14:14
then even if these three men--Noah, Daniel, and Job--were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 16:10
I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.

Ezekiel 16:17
You also took the fine jewelry of gold and silver I had given you, and you made male idols with which to prostitute yourself.

Ezekiel 16:19
And you set before them as a pleasing aroma the food I had given you--the fine flour, oil, and honey that I had fed you. That is what happened, declares the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 27:16
Aram was your customer because of your many products; they exchanged turquoise, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies for your wares.


Treasury of Scripture

And took your broidered garments, and covered them: and you have set my oil and my incense before them.

Ezekiel 16:10
I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.

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Ezekiel 16
1. Under the parable of a wretched infant is shown the natural state of Jerusalem
6. God's extraordinary love toward her,
15. Her grievous judgment
35. Her sin, equal to her mother,
46. and exceeding her sisters, Sodom and Samaria,
59. calls for judgments
60. Mercy is promised her in the end














Verses 18, 19. - Mine oil and mine incense. This, as afterwards in Ezekiel 23:41, was the crowning aggravation of the guilt. The very gifts of God, designed for his worship, were prostituted to that of his rivals. The "oil" is that of Exodus 30:23-25, perfumed and set apart for sacred uses. The act of covering the idol was, as in ver. 8, the symbol of the marriage union. In the sweet savour we have the familiar phrase of Ezekiel 6:13. The scene brought before us is that of a sacrificial feast, in which cakes of flour, honey, and oil were eaten whilst incense was offered. So we have the "adored liba" of Virgil, 'AEneid,' 7:109, or more fully in Tibullus, 'Eleg.,' 1:7, 53, 54, the "thuria honores," the "liba ... dulcia melle." Thus it was, etc. As in ver. 16, the description seems to rouse an instinctive abhorrence in the prophet's mind, which finds utterance in this form: "Yes, it was even so." The words are, however, taken by the LXX., Vulgate, and Luther as opening the following verse: "And it came to pass that."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You took
וַתִּקְחִ֛י (wat·tiq·ḥî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

your embroidered
רִקְמָתֵ֖ךְ (riq·mā·ṯêḵ)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 7553: Variegation of color, embroidery

garments
בִּגְדֵ֥י (biḡ·ḏê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 899: A covering, clothing, treachery, pillage

to cover them,
וַתְּכַסִּ֑ים (wat·tə·ḵas·sîm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - second person feminine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3680: To plump, fill up hollows, to cover

and you set
נָתַ֖תְּ (nā·ṯat)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

My oil
וְשַׁמְנִי֙ (wə·šam·nî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 8081: Grease, liquid, richness

and incense
וּקְטָרְתִּ֔י (ū·qə·ṭā·rə·tî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 7004: Smoke, odor of (burning) sacrifice, incense

before them.
לִפְנֵיהֶֽם׃ (lip̄·nê·hem)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6440: The face


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