Jerusalem’s Unfaithfulness
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her abominations Ezk 22:2Ezk 20:4Isa 58:1Ezk 23:36Ezk 33:7-9Ezk 8:9-17Hos 8:1 and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. Ezk 16:45Isa 51:1-2Deu 20:17Jhn 8:44Neh 9:71Ki 21:26Ezk 21:30Gen 15:16 On the day of your birth your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths. Hos 2:3Deu 15:15Exo 5:16-21Gen 15:13Jos 24:2Act 7:6-7Deu 5:6Exo 2:23-24 No one cared enough for you to do even one of these things out of compassion for you. Instead, you were thrown out into the open field, because you were despised on the day of your birth. Deu 32:10Exo 1:22Gen 21:10Lam 4:3Num 19:16Isa 49:15Ezk 2:6Jer 22:19
Then I passed by and saw you wallowing in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, ‘Live!’ There I said to you, ‘Live!’ Eph 2:4-5Jhn 5:25Tit 3:3-7Act 7:34Exo 19:4-6Mat 5:13Exo 2:24-25Deu 9:4 I made you thrive like a plant of the field. You grew up and matured and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed and your hair grew, but you were naked and bare. Deu 1:10Exo 1:7Isa 62:3Ezk 16:10-13Act 7:17Deu 32:10-14Deu 33:26-29Deu 4:8
Then I passed by and saw you, and you were indeed old enough for love. So I spread My cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord GOD. Rut 3:9Jer 2:2-3Rom 5:8Isa 43:4Exo 32:131Sa 12:22Deu 4:31Deu 7:6-8 Then I bathed you with water, rinsed off your blood, and anointed you with oil. Psa 23:5Rut 3:31Jn 2:271Jn 5:81Co 6:111Co 10:21Jn 2:202Co 1:21 I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk. Ezk 16:18Ezk 16:13Exo 26:36Isa 61:10Psa 45:13-14Exo 26:14Exo 28:5Exo 39:27-28 I adorned you with jewelry, and I put bracelets on your wrists and a chain around your neck. Gen 24:22Isa 3:19Gen 24:47Gen 41:42Pro 1:9Ezk 23:42Num 31:50Rev 4:10 I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head. Isa 3:21Isa 28:5Jer 13:18
So you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was made of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You became very beautiful and rose to be queen. 1Ki 4:21Deu 32:13-14Psa 50:2Psa 48:2Ezk 16:19Psa 45:13-141Sa 10:11Sa 12:12 Your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect in the splendor I bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD. 1Ki 10:24Lam 2:151Co 4:7Deu 4:6-81Ki 10:1-132Ch 2:11-122Ch 9:23Deu 4:32-38
But because of your fame, you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot. You lavished your favors on everyone who passed by, and your beauty was theirs for the asking. Ezk 16:25Isa 57:8Jer 2:20Ezk 23:3Jer 7:4Ezk 23:8Hos 1:2Isa 1:21 You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred! 2Ki 23:72Ch 28:24Ezk 7:20Hos 2:8
You also took the fine jewelry of gold and silver I had given you, and you made male idols with which to prostitute yourself. Ezk 23:14-21Exo 32:1-4Ezk 16:11Ezk 7:19-20Hos 10:1Hos 2:13Isa 44:19-20Isa 57:7-8 You took your embroidered garments to cover them, and you set My oil and incense before them. 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. Ezk 16:13Deu 32:14-17Gen 8:21Hos 2:8-13
You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough? Ezk 23:37Exo 13:2Ezk 20:26Ezk 20:31Jer 7:31Psa 106:37-38Deu 29:11-12Exo 13:12 You slaughtered My children and delivered them up through the fire to idols. 2Ki 17:172Ki 21:6Deu 18:10Jer 19:5Lev 18:212Ki 23:10Lev 20:1-5Psa 106:37
And in all your abominations and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your own blood. Jer 2:2Ezk 16:43Hos 11:1Ezk 16:3-7Ezk 16:60-63Hos 2:3
Woe! Woe to you, declares the Lord GOD. And in addition to all your other wickedness, Ezk 13:18Ezk 13:3Ezk 2:10Ezk 24:6Jer 13:27Mat 11:21Mat 23:13-29Rev 12:12 you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square. Ezk 16:31Ezk 16:39Isa 57:7Jer 2:20Psa 78:58Ezk 20:28-29Jer 3:22Ch 33:3-7 At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by. Ezk 16:31Jer 3:2Ezk 16:15Ezk 23:32Ezk 23:9-10Gen 38:14Gen 38:21Isa 3:9 You prostituted yourself with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, and increased your promiscuity to provoke Me to anger. Ezk 23:19-21Ezk 20:7-8Deu 29:16-17Exo 32:4Ezk 23:3Ezk 23:8Ezk 8:10Ezk 8:14
Therefore I stretched out My hand against you and reduced your portion. I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd conduct. Isa 9:12Ezk 16:57Ezk 16:372Ch 28:18-192Ki 24:2Deu 28:48-57Ezk 14:9Ezk 16:47 Then you prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, because you were not yet satisfied. Even after that, you were still not satisfied. 2Ki 16:72Ki 16:10-18Hos 10:6Jer 2:18Jer 2:362Ch 28:232Ch 28:162Ch 28:20-21 So you extended your promiscuity to Chaldea, 1 the land of merchants—but even with this you were not satisfied! 2Ki 21:9Ezk 13:14-23Ezk 23:14-21Jdg 2:12-19
How weak-willed is your heart, 2 declares the Lord GOD, while you do all these things, the acts of a shameless prostitute! Isa 1:3Jer 3:3Isa 3:9Jer 4:22Pro 9:13Jdg 16:15-16Jer 2:12-13Pro 7:11-13 But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment. Ezk 16:33-34Isa 52:3Ezk 16:24-25Ezk 16:39Hos 12:11
You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband! Jer 2:282Co 11:2-3Ezk 16:8Ezk 23:37Ezk 23:45Hos 2:2Hos 3:1Jer 2:25 Men give gifts to all their prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors. Isa 57:9Hos 8:9-10Deu 23:17-18Ezk 16:41Gen 38:16-18Hos 2:12Isa 30:3Isa 30:6-7 So your prostitution is the opposite of that of other women: No one solicited your favors, and you paid a fee instead of receiving one; so you are the very opposite!
Judgment on Jerusalem
Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD! 1Ki 22:19Amo 7:16Ezk 13:2Ezk 20:47Ezk 34:7Hos 2:5Hos 4:1Isa 1:10 This is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your wealth and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them, Ezk 23:10Ezk 16:15-22Ezk 22:15Ezk 23:18Ezk 23:29Ezk 23:8Ezk 24:13Ezk 36:25 therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you completely naked. Hos 2:10Hos 2:3Jer 13:22Ezk 23:9-10Hos 8:10Jer 13:26Lam 1:8Nam 3:5-6 And I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and those who shed blood; so I will bring upon you the wrath of your bloodshed and jealousy. Gen 9:6Lev 20:10Jer 18:21Zep 1:17Deu 22:22-24Exo 21:12Ezk 16:20-21Ezk 16:36
Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will level your mounds and tear down your lofty shrines. They will strip off your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare. Ezk 23:26Hos 2:3Ezk 16:24-25Ezk 16:10-20Ezk 16:31Ezk 23:29Ezk 7:22-24Hos 2:9-13 They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. Ezk 23:47Hab 1:6-10Ezk 23:10Ezk 24:21Jer 25:9Jhn 8:5-7 Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. Ezk 23:482Ki 25:9Ezk 23:27Jer 39:8Jer 52:13Deu 13:16Ezk 23:10Ezk 5:8
I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers. So I will lay to rest My wrath against you, and My jealousy will turn away from you. Then I will be calm and no longer angry. Ezk 5:13Ezk 21:17Ezk 39:29Isa 40:1-2Isa 54:9-10Zec 6:82Sa 21:14Isa 1:24
Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but enraged Me with all these things, I will surely bring your deeds down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your other abominations? Ezk 16:22Ezk 11:21Ezk 22:31Psa 78:42Ezk 6:9Isa 63:10Psa 106:13Act 7:51
Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: Ezk 18:2-31Sa 24:13Psa 106:35-38Ezk 16:3Ezr 9:11Ki 21:162Ki 17:112Ki 17:15
‘Like mother, like daughter.’
You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. Isa 1:4Zec 11:8Deu 12:31Ezk 16:15Ezk 16:8Ezk 23:2Ezk 23:37-39Deu 5:9 Your older sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters to your north; and your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters to your south. Ezk 23:4Ezk 16:48-49Ezk 16:51Ezk 16:53-56Ezk 16:61Gen 13:10-13Jer 3:8-112Pe 2:6 And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were. 2Ki 21:9Ezk 16:48Ezk 16:51Ezk 5:6-71Ki 16:311Co 5:12Ki 21:16Ezk 8:17
As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did as you and your daughters have done. Mat 10:15Act 7:52Luk 10:12Mat 11:23-24Mrk 6:11 Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy. Ezk 28:2Gen 13:10Psa 138:6Luk 12:16-20Dan 5:23Ezk 18:12Ezk 18:16Isa 3:9 Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them, as you have seen. 3 Gen 13:13Gen 18:20Gen 19:24Gen 19:52Ki 23:72Pe 2:6Amo 4:11Deu 23:17
Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have multiplied your abominations beyond theirs, and all the abominations you have committed have made your sisters appear righteous. Jer 3:8-11Luk 12:47-48Mat 12:41-42Rom 3:9-20 So now you must bear your disgrace, since you have brought justification for your sisters. For they appear more righteous than you, because your sins were more vile than theirs. So you too must bear your shame and disgrace, since you have made your sisters appear righteous. Mat 7:1-51Ki 2:321Sa 24:17Ezk 16:54Ezk 16:56Ezk 16:63Ezk 36:15Ezk 36:31-32
But I will restore Sodom and her daughters from captivity, 4 as well as Samaria and her daughters. And I will restore you along with them. Ezk 29:14Ezk 39:25Isa 19:24-25Jer 12:16Ezk 16:60-61Isa 1:9Jer 20:16Jer 31:23 So you will bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you did to comfort them. Ezk 14:22-23Jer 2:26Ezk 16:52Ezk 16:63Ezk 36:31-32
And your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to their former state. You and your daughters will also return to your former state. Ezk 16:53Ezk 36:11Mal 3:4 Did you not treat your sister Sodom as an object of scorn in the day of your pride, Isa 65:5Luk 15:28-30Luk 18:11Zep 3:11 before your wickedness was uncovered? Even so, you are now scorned by the daughters of Edom 5and all those around her, and by the daughters of the Philistines—all those around you who despise you. 2Ki 16:5-72Ch 28:18-232Ch 28:5-6Ezk 16:36-37Isa 7:11Co 4:5Ezk 21:24Ezk 23:18-19 You will bear the consequences of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the LORD. Ezk 23:49Gen 4:13Lam 5:7
The Covenant Remembered
For this is what the Lord GOD says: I will deal with you according to your deeds, since you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Ezk 17:19Isa 24:52Ch 34:31-32Deu 29:10-15Deu 29:25Exo 24:1-8Ezk 14:4Ezk 17:13-16 But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you. Hos 2:19-20Ezk 16:8Heb 12:24Heb 8:10Jer 50:5Isa 55:3Jer 31:31-34Jer 32:38-41 Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of My covenant with you. Gal 4:26-31Heb 8:13Eph 3:6Ezk 20:43Isa 66:7-12Jer 50:4-5Rom 11:11Rom 15:16
So I will establish My covenant with you, and you will know that I am the LORD, Jer 24:7Ezk 6:7Ezk 16:60Ezk 20:37Ezk 20:43-44Ezk 39:22Hos 2:18-23Jol 3:17 so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your disgrace, declares the Lord GOD.” Psa 39:9Rom 3:19Dan 9:7-8Ezk 36:31-32Job 40:4-5Tit 3:3-7Ezk 16:61Ezr 9:6