Ezekiel 16:39-63 ▼

39 And I will give you into their hands, and they will overthrow your shrines, and they will break down your high places, and they will strip you of your clothes and take away the articles of your beauty, and they will leave you naked and bare.

40 And they will bring up an assembly against you, and they will stone you with stones, and they will cut you up with their swords.

41 And they will burn your houses with fire, and they will execute judgment against you before the eyes of many women. And I will put an end to your prostitution, and even a single lover you will not pay again!

42 And I will lay to rest My fury against you, and My jealousy will turn aside from you; and I will be quiet, and I will not be angry anymore.

43 Because that you did not remember the days of your youth, and you caused enragement to Me with all these things, behold, I also, will recompense your way on your head! An utterance of the Lord YHWH. And have you not done this wickedness in addition to all your abominations?

44 Behold everyone quoting proverbs will use this proverb against you, saying, ‘Like her mother is her daughter.’

45 You are the daughter of your mother, loathing her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, those who loathed their husbands and children! Your⁺ mother was a Hittite and your⁺ father an Amorite.

46 And your elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters, dwelling to the north of you; and your younger sister, dwelling toyour south, is Sodom and her daughters.

47 And not only in their ways did you walk, and according to their abominations you acted—as if too little—and you became more corrupt than they in all your ways!

48 As I live—a declaration of the Lord YHWH—Sodom your sister has not done, she and her daughters, as you have done—you and your daughters!

49 Behold, this was the guilt of Sodom your sister: Pride, fullness of bread, and the ease of idleness was unto her and unto her daughters, and the hand of the poor and needy she did not strengthen.

50 And they were haughty, and they did an abomination before My face, and I turned them aside as you have seen.

51 And Samaria, according to the half of your sins, did not sin; and you have multiplied your abominations beyond theirs, and you have justified your sisters in all the abominations that you have done.

52 So also you, lift up your own shame, that you have brought justification for your sisters in your sins that you made abhorrent beyond theirs. They are more righteous than you, so you too be disgraced and lift up your own shame in your justifying of your sisters.

53 And I will turn back their captivity—the captives of Sodom and her daughters, and the captives of Samaria and her daughters—and the captivity of your captives in their midst,

54 so that you may bear your shame and be disgraced by all that you did, in your giving comfort to them.

55 And your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former state, and you and your daughters will return to your⁺ former state.

56 Has not your sister Sodom come to be as a byword in your mouth in the days of your pride,

57 before your wickedness was uncovered? It is like the time of scorn by the daughters of Edom, and all those around her, and the daughters of the Philistines—those despising you from all around.

58 Your wickedness and your abominations you will bear, a declaration of YHWH.

59 For thus says the Lord YHWH: I will do with you as you have done—those having despised the oath by breaking the covenant.

60 And I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish with you a covenant forever.

61 And you will remember your ways, and you will be ashamed, in your taking your sisters, those older than you to those younger than you, when I give them to you as daughters, and not by your covenant.

62 And I will establish My covenant with you, and you will know that I am YHWH,

63 so that you may remember and be ashamed, and there will come to be for you no more an opening of your mouth from the face of your shame, in My making atonement toward you for all that you have done! An utterance of the Lord YHWH.”