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Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 16

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Ezekiel 16 NASB - New American Standard BibleEzekiel 16 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 16 of Ezekiel—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. ¶ Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  2. “Son of man, 1make known to Jerusalem her abominations
  3. and say, ‘Thus says the Lord [a]GOD to Jerusalem, “Your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite, your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
  4. As for your birth, 2on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you were not rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths.
  5. No eye looked with pity on you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you. Rather you were thrown out into the [b]3open field, [c]for you were abhorred on the day you were born.
  6. ¶ “When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’
  7. I 4made you [d]numerous like plants of the field. Then you grew up, became tall and reached the age for fine ornaments; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Yet you were naked and bare.
  8. ¶ “Then I passed by you and saw you, and behold, [e]you were at the time for love; so I 5spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. I also 6swore to you and 7entered into a covenant with you so that you 8became Mine,” declares the Lord GOD.
  9. “Then I bathed you with water, washed off your blood from you and 9anointed you with oil.
  10. I also clothed you with 10embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
  11. I adorned you with ornaments, put 11bracelets on your hands and a 12necklace around your neck.
  12. I also put a 13ring in your nostril, earrings in your ears and a 14beautiful crown on your head.
  13. Thus you were adorned with 15gold and silver, and your dress was of fine linen, silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey and oil; so you were exceedingly beautiful and advanced to 16royalty.
  14. Then your 17fame went forth among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was 18perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on you,” declares the Lord GOD.
  15. ¶ “But you 19trusted in your beauty and 20played the harlot because of your fame, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by [f]who might be willing.
  16. You took some of your clothes, made for yourself high places of various colors and played the harlot on them, [g]which should never come about nor happen.
  17. You also took your beautiful [h]21jewels made of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images that you might play the harlot with them.
  18. Then you took your embroidered cloth and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them.
  19. Also 22My bread which I gave you, fine flour, oil and honey with which I fed you, [i]you would offer before them for a soothing aroma; so it happened,” declares the Lord GOD.
  20. “Moreover, you took your sons and daughters whom you had borne to 23Me and 24sacrificed them to [j]idols to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter?
  21. You slaughtered 25My children and offered them up to [k]idols by 26causing them to pass through the fire.
  22. Besides all your abominations and harlotries you did not remember the days of 27your youth, when you were naked and bare and squirming in your blood.
  23. ¶ “Then it came about after all your wickedness (‘Woe, woe to you!’ declares the Lord GOD),
  24. that you built yourself a 28shrine and made yourself a 29high place in every square.
  25. You built yourself a high place at the top of 30every street and made your beauty abominable, and you spread your legs to every passer-by to multiply your harlotry.
  26. You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your [l]lustful neighbors, and multiplied your harlotry to 31make Me angry.
  27. Behold now, I have stretched out My hand against you and diminished your rations. And I delivered you up to the desire of those who hate you, the 32daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd conduct.
  28. Moreover, you played the harlot with the 33Assyrians because you were not satisfied; you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied.
  29. You also multiplied your harlotry with the land of merchants, Chaldea, yet even with this you were not satisfied.”’”
  30. ¶ “How 34languishing is your heart,” declares the Lord GOD, “while you do all these things, the actions of a [m]35bold-faced harlot.
  31. When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every square, in 36disdaining money, you were not like a harlot.
  32. You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!
  33. [n]Men give gifts to all harlots, but you 37give your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them to come to you from every direction for your harlotries.
  34. Thus you are different from those women in your harlotries, in that no one plays the harlot [o]as you do, because you give money and no money is given you; thus you are different.”
  35. ¶ Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD.
  36. Thus says the Lord GOD, “Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your harlotries with your lovers and with all your detestable 38idols, and because of the blood of your sons which you gave to [p]idols,
  37. therefore, behold, I will 39gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, even all those whom you loved and all those whom you 40hated. So I will gather them against you from every direction and 41expose your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness.
  38. Thus I will 42judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of 43wrath and jealousy.
  39. I will also give you into [q]the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, 44strip you of your clothing, take away your [r]jewels, and will leave you naked and bare.
  40. They will [s]incite a 45crowd against you and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
  41. They will 46burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. Then I will 47stop you from playing the harlot, and you will also no longer pay [t]your lovers.
  42. So I 48will calm My fury against you and My jealousy will depart from you, and I will be pacified and angry 49no more.
  43. Because you have 50not remembered the days of your youth but [u]have 51enraged Me by all these things, behold, I in turn will 52bring your conduct down on your own head,” declares the Lord GOD, “so that you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other abominations.
  44. ¶ “Behold, everyone who quotes 53proverbs will quote this proverb concerning you, saying, ‘[v]Like mother, [w]like daughter.’
  45. You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You are also the 54sister of your sisters, who 55loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
  46. Now your 56older sister is Samaria, who lives [x]north of you with her [y]daughters; and your younger sister, who lives [z]south of you, is 57Sodom with her [aa]daughters.
  47. Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were 58too little, you acted 59more corruptly in all your conduct than they.
  48. As I live,” declares the Lord GOD, “Sodom, your sister and her daughters have 60not done as you and your daughters have done.
  49. Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had 61arrogance, 62abundant food and 63careless ease, but she did not [ab]help the 64poor and needy.
  50. Thus they were haughty and committed 65abominations before Me. Therefore I 66removed them [ac]when I saw it.
  51. Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half of your sins, for you have multiplied your abominations more than they. Thus you have made your sisters appear 67righteous by all your abominations which you have committed.
  52. Also bear your disgrace in that you have [ad]made judgment favorable for your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted 68more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. Yes, be also ashamed and bear your disgrace, in that you made your sisters appear righteous.
  53. ¶ “Nevertheless, I will restore their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and [ae]along with them [af]your own captivity,
  54. in order that you may bear your humiliation and feel 69ashamed for all that you have done when you become 70a consolation to them.
  55. Your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, [ag]will return to their former state, and you with your daughters will also return to your former state.
  56. As the name of your sister Sodom was not heard from your lips in your day of pride,
  57. before your 71wickedness was uncovered, [ah]so now you have become the 72reproach of the daughters of [ai]Edom and of all who are around her, of the daughters of the Philistines—those surrounding you who despise you.
  58. You have 73borne the penalty of your lewdness and abominations,” the LORD declares.
  59. For thus says the Lord GOD, “I will also do with you as you have done, you who have 74despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
  60. ¶ “Nevertheless, I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an 75everlasting covenant with you.
  61. Then you will 76remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both your older and your younger; and I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant.
  62. Thus I will 77establish My covenant with you, and you shall 78know that I am the LORD,
  63. so that you may 79remember and be ashamed and 80never open your mouth anymore because of your humiliation, when I have 81forgiven you for all that you have done,” the Lord GOD declares.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch
  2. ^ Lit surface
  3. ^ Lit in the loathing of your soul
  4. ^ Lit a myriad
  5. ^ Lit your time was
  6. ^ Lit to whom it might be
  7. ^ Lit things which had not happened nor will it be
  8. ^ Lit articles of beauty
  9. ^ Lit and you...offer it
  10. ^ Lit them
  11. ^ Lit them
  12. ^ Lit great of flesh
  13. ^ Lit domineering
  14. ^ Lit They
  15. ^ Lit after you
  16. ^ Lit them
  17. ^ Lit their hands, and they
  18. ^ Lit articles of beauty
  19. ^ Lit bring up an assembly
  20. ^ Lit a harlot’s hire
  21. ^ So with ancient versions; Heb are angry against
  22. ^ Lit Her
  23. ^ Lit Her
  24. ^ Lit on your left
  25. ^ I.e. environs; so through v 55
  26. ^ Lit from your right
  27. ^ I.e. environs; so through v 55
  28. ^ Lit grasp the hand of
  29. ^ Many ancient mss and versions read as you have seen
  30. ^ Lit mediated for
  31. ^ Lit in their midst
  32. ^ Lit the captivity of your captivity
  33. ^ Heb includes will return...state after Sodom also
  34. ^ Lit as at the time of
  35. ^ So with many mss and one version; M.T. Aram

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Is 58:1; Eze 20:4; 22:2
  2. ^ Ho 2:3
  3. ^ De 32:10
  4. ^ Ex 1:7; De 1:10
  5. ^ Ru 3:9; Je 2:2
  6. ^ Ge 22:16-18
  7. ^ Ex 24:7, 8
  8. ^ Ex 19:5; Eze 20:5; Ho 2:19, 20
  9. ^ Ru 3:3
  10. ^ Ex 26:36; Eze 16:13, 18; 26:16; 27:7, 16
  11. ^ Ge 24:22, 47; Is 3:19; Eze 23:42
  12. ^ Ge 41:42; Pr 1:9
  13. ^ Ge 24:47; Is 3:21
  14. ^ Is 28:5; Je 13:18; Eze 16:14
  15. ^ Ps 45:13, 14; Eze 16:17
  16. ^ 1Sa 10:1; 1Ki 4:21
  17. ^ 1Ki 10:1, 24
  18. ^ Ps 50:2; La 2:15
  19. ^ Eze 16:25; 27:3
  20. ^ Is 57:8; Je 2:20
  21. ^ Eze 16:11, 12
  22. ^ Ho 2:8
  23. ^ Ex 13:2, 12; De 29:11, 12
  24. ^ Ps 106:37, 38; Je 7:31; Eze 20:31; 23:37
  25. ^ Ex 13:2
  26. ^ 2Ki 17:17; Je 19:5
  27. ^ Je 2:2
  28. ^ Je 11:13; Eze 16:31, 39; 20:28, 29
  29. ^ Ps 78:58; Is 57:7
  30. ^ Pr 9:14
  31. ^ Je 7:18, 19; Eze 8:17
  32. ^ Is 9:12; Eze 16:57
  33. ^ 2Ki 16:7, 10-18; 2Ch 28:16, 20-23; Je 2:18, 36; Eze 23:12; Ho 10:6
  34. ^ Pr 9:13; Is 1:3; Je 4:22
  35. ^ Is 3:9; Je 3:3
  36. ^ Is 52:3
  37. ^ Is 57:9; Eze 16:41; Ho 8:9, 10
  38. ^ Je 19:5; Eze 20:31; 23:37
  39. ^ Je 13:22, 26; Eze 23:9, 22; Ho 2:3, 10; Na 3:5, 6
  40. ^ Eze 23:17, 28
  41. ^ Is 47:3
  42. ^ Eze 23:45
  43. ^ Ps 79:3, 5; Je 18:21; Eze 23:25; Zp 1:17
  44. ^ Eze 23:26; Ho 2:3
  45. ^ Eze 23:47; Hab 1:6-10
  46. ^ 2Ki 25:9; Je 39:8; 52:13
  47. ^ Eze 23:48
  48. ^ 2Sa 24:25; Eze 5:13; 21:17; Zc 6:8
  49. ^ Is 40:1, 2; 54:9, 10; Eze 39:29
  50. ^ Ps 78:42; 106:13; Eze 16:22
  51. ^ Is 63:10; Eze 6:9
  52. ^ Eze 11:21; 22:31
  53. ^ 1Sa 24:13; Eze 12:22, 23; 18:2, 3
  54. ^ Eze 23:2
  55. ^ Is 1:4; Eze 23:37-39; Zc 11:8
  56. ^ Je 3:8-11; Eze 23:4
  57. ^ Ge 13:10-13; 18:20; Eze 16:48, 49, 53-56, 61
  58. ^ 1Ki 16:31
  59. ^ 2Ki 21:9; Eze 5:6; 16:48, 51
  60. ^ Mt 10:15; 11:23, 24
  61. ^ Ge 19:9; Ps 138:6; Is 3:9; Eze 28:2, 9, 17
  62. ^ Ge 13:10; Is 22:13; Am 6:4-6
  63. ^ Lu 12:16-20; 16:19
  64. ^ Eze 18:7, 12, 16
  65. ^ Ge 13:13; 18:20; 19:5
  66. ^ Ge 19:24, 25
  67. ^ Je 3:8-11
  68. ^ Eze 16:47, 48, 51
  69. ^ Je 2:26
  70. ^ Eze 14:22, 23
  71. ^ Eze 16:36, 37
  72. ^ 2Ki 16:5-7; 2Ch 28:5, 6, 18-23; Eze 5:14, 15; 22:4
  73. ^ Eze 23:49
  74. ^ Is 24:5; Eze 17:19
  75. ^ Is 55:3; Je 32:38-41; Eze 37:26
  76. ^ Je 50:4, 5; Eze 6:9
  77. ^ Eze 20:37; 34:25; 37:26
  78. ^ Je 24:7; Eze 20:43, 44
  79. ^ Eze 36:31, 32; Da 9:7, 8
  80. ^ Ps 39:9; Ro 3:19
  81. ^ Ps 65:3; 78:38; 79:9

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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