Ezequiel 16 - Bíblia Online

The word of the LORD came to me: 
"Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her detestable practices 
and say, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Jerusalem: Your ancestry and birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. 
On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths. 
No one looked on you with pity or had compassion enough to do any of these things for you. Rather, you were thrown out into the open field, for on the day you were born you were despised. 
"'Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, "Live!" [^1] 
I made you grow like a plant of the field. You grew and developed and entered puberty. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, yet you were stark naked. 
"'Later I passed by, and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for love, I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your naked body. I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Sovereign LORD, and you became mine. 
"'I bathed you with water and washed the blood from you and put ointments on you. 
I clothed you with an embroidered dress and put sandals of fine leather on you. I dressed you in fine linen and covered you with costly garments. 
I adorned you with jewelry: I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace around your neck, 
and I put a ring on your nose, earrings on your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. 
So you were adorned with gold and silver; your clothes were of fine linen and costly fabric and embroidered cloth. Your food was honey, olive oil and the finest flour. You became very beautiful and rose to be a queen. 
And your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, because the splendor I had given you made your beauty perfect, declares the Sovereign LORD. 
"'But you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to become a prostitute. You lavished your favors on anyone who passed by and your beauty became his. 
You took some of your garments to make gaudy high places, where you carried on your prostitution. You went to him, and he possessed your beauty. [^2] 
You also took the fine jewelry I gave you, the jewelry made of my gold and silver, and you made for yourself male idols and engaged in prostitution with them. 
And you took your embroidered clothes to put on them, and you offered my oil and incense before them. 
Also the food I provided for you —the flour, olive oil and honey I gave you to eat —you offered as fragrant incense before them. That is what happened, declares the Sovereign LORD. 
"'And you took your sons and daughters whom you bore to me and sacrificed them as food to the idols. Was your prostitution not enough? 
You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols. 
In all your detestable practices and your prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, kicking about in your blood. 
"'Woe! Woe to you, declares the Sovereign LORD. In addition to all your other wickedness, 
you built a mound for yourself and made a lofty shrine in every public square. 
At every street corner you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty, spreading your legs with increasing promiscuity to anyone who passed by. 
You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your neighbors with large genitals, and aroused my anger with your increasing promiscuity. 
So I stretched out my hand against you and reduced your territory; I gave you over to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were shocked by your lewd conduct. 
You engaged in prostitution with the Assyrians too, because you were insatiable; and even after that, you still were not satisfied. 
Then you increased your promiscuity to include Babylonia, "a land of merchants, but even with this you were not satisfied. 
"'I am filled with fury against you, "declares the Sovereign LORD, when you do all these things, acting like a brazen prostitute! 
When you built your mounds at every street corner and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were unlike a prostitute, because you scorned payment. 
"'You adulterous wife! You prefer strangers to your own husband! 
All prostitutes receive gifts, but you give gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors. 
So in your prostitution you are the opposite of others; no one runs after you for your favors. You are the very opposite, for you give payment and none is given to you. 
"'Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the LORD! 
This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you poured out your lust and exposed your naked body in your promiscuity with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because you gave them your children's blood, 
therefore I am going to gather all your lovers, with whom you found pleasure, those you loved as well as those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and will strip you in front of them, and they will see you stark naked. 
I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and who shed blood; I will bring on you the blood vengeance of my wrath and jealous anger. 
Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your mounds and destroy your lofty shrines. They will strip you of your clothes and take your fine jewelry and leave you stark naked. 
They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and hack you to pieces with their swords. 
They will burn down your houses and inflict punishment on you in the sight of many women. I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer pay your lovers. 
Then my wrath against you will subside and my jealous anger will turn away from you; I will be calm and no longer angry. 
"'Because you did not remember the days of your youth but enraged me with all these things, I will surely bring down on your head what you have done, declares the Sovereign LORD. Did you not add lewdness to all your other detestable practices? 
"'Everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: "Like mother, like daughter." 
You are a true daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and her children; and you are a true sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. 
Your older sister was Samaria, who lived to the north of you with her daughters; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you with her daughters, was Sodom. 
You not only followed their ways and copied their detestable practices, but in all your ways you soon became more depraved than they. 
As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done. 
"'Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. 
They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen. 
Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have done more detestable things than they, and have made your sisters seem righteous by all these things you have done. 
Bear your disgrace, for you have furnished some justification for your sisters. Because your sins were more vile than theirs, they appear more righteous than you. So then, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous. 
"'However, I will restore the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters and of Samaria and her daughters, and your fortunes along with them, 
so that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you have done in giving them comfort. 
And your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to what they were before; and you and your daughters will return to what you were before. 
You would not even mention your sister Sodom in the day of your pride, 
before your wickedness was uncovered. Even so, you are now scorned by the daughters of Edom "and all her neighbors and the daughters of the Philistines —all those around you who despise you. 
You will bear the consequences of your lewdness and your detestable practices, declares the LORD. 
"'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will deal with you as you deserve, because you have despised my oath by breaking the covenant. 
Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you. 
Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both those who are older than you and those who are younger. I will give them to you as daughters, but not on the basis of my covenant with you. 
So I will establish my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the LORD. 
Then, when I make atonement for you for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your humiliation, declares the Sovereign LORD.'" 

Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, 
And say, Thus said the Lord GOD to Jerusalem; Your birth and your nativity is of the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite, and your mother an Hittite. 
And as for your nativity, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to supple you; you were not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. 
None eye pitied you, to do any of these to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, to the loathing of your person, in the day that you were born. 
And when I passed by you, and saw you polluted in your own blood, I said to you when you were in your blood, Live; yes, I said to you when you were in your blood, Live. 
I have caused you to multiply as the bud of the field, and you have increased and waxen great, and you are come to excellent ornaments: your breasts are fashioned, and your hair is grown, whereas you were naked and bore. 
Now when I passed by you, and looked on you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, said the Lord GOD, and you became mine. 
Then washed I you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil. 
I clothed you also with broidered work, and shod you with badgers'skin, and I girded you about with fine linen, and I covered you with silk. 
I decked you also with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck. 
And I put a jewel on your forehead, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head. 
Thus were you decked with gold and silver; and your raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; you did eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and you were exceeding beautiful, and you did prosper into a kingdom. 
And your renown went forth among the heathen for your beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put on you, said the Lord GOD. 
But you did trust in your own beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and poured out your fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. 
And of your garments you did take, and decked your high places with divers colors, and played the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. 
You have also taken your fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made to yourself images of men, and did commit prostitution with them, 
And took your broidered garments, and covered them: and you have set my oil and my incense before them. 
My meat also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you have even set it before them for a sweet smell: and thus it was, said the Lord GOD. 
Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Is this of your prostitutions a small matter, 
That you have slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them? 
And in all your abominations and your prostitutions you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bore, and were polluted in your blood. 
And it came to pass after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you! said the LORD GOD;) 
That you have also built to you an eminent place, and have made you an high place in every street. 
You have built your high place at every head of the way, and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have opened your feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied your prostitutions. 
You have also committed fornication with the Egyptians your neighbors, great of flesh; and have increased your prostitutions, to provoke me to anger. 
Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary food, and delivered you to the will of them that hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of your lewd way. 
You have played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the harlot with them, and yet could not be satisfied. 
You have moreover multiplied your fornication in the land of Canaan to Chaldea; and yet you were not satisfied therewith. 
How weak is your heart, said the LORD GOD, seeing you do all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman; 
In that you build your eminent place in the head of every way, and make your high place in every street; and have not been as an harlot, in that you scorn hire; 
But as a wife that commits adultery, which takes strangers instead of her husband! 
They give gifts to all whores: but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and hire them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution. 
And the contrary is in you from other women in your prostitutions, whereas none follows you to commit prostitutions: and in that you give a reward, and no reward is given to you, therefore you are contrary. 
Why, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD: 
Thus said the Lord GOD; Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness discovered through your prostitutions with your lovers, and with all the idols of your abominations, and by the blood of your children, which you did give to them; 
Behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all them that you have loved, with all them that you have hated; I will even gather them round about against you, and will discover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness. 
And I will judge you, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give you blood in fury and jealousy. 
And I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your eminent place, and shall break down your high places: they shall strip you also of your clothes, and shall take your fair jewels, and leave you naked and bore. 
They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords. 
And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women: and I will cause you to cease from playing the harlot, and you also shall give no hire any more. 
So will I make my fury toward you to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from you, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry. 
Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense your way on your head, said the Lord GOD: and you shall not commit this lewdness above all your abominations. 
Behold, every one that uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. 
You are your mother' daughter, that lothes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, which loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite. 
And your elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at your left hand: and your younger sister, that dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. 
Yet have you not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, you were corrupted more than they in all your ways. 
As I live, said the Lord GOD, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters. 
Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 
And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good. 
Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters in all your abominations which you have done. 
You also, which have judged your sisters, bear your own shame for your sins that you have committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than you: yes, be you confounded also, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters. 
When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of your captives in the middle of them: 
That you may bear your own shame, and may be confounded in all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them. 
When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then you and your daughters shall return to your former estate. 
For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride, 
Before your wickedness was discovered, as at the time of your reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise you round about. 
You have borne your lewdness and your abominations, said the LORD. 
For thus said the Lord GOD; I will even deal with you as you have done, which have despised the oath in breaking the covenant. 
Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant. 
Then you shall remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, your elder and your younger: and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant. 
And I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am the LORD: 
That you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more because of your shame, when I am pacified toward you for all that you have done, said the Lord GOD. 

Ezequiel 17

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