and say: Thus said the Sovereign GOD to Jerusalem: By origin and birth you are from the land of the Canaanites—your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
As for your birth, when you were born your navel cord was not cut, and you were not bathed in water to smooth you;asmooth you Meaning of Heb. uncertain. you were not rubbed with salt, nor were you swaddled.
No one pitied you enough to do any one of these things for you out of compassion for you; on the day you were born, you were left lying, rejected, in the open field.
When I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you: “Live despite your blood.” Yea, I said to you: “Live despite your blood.”bYea, I said to you: “Live despite your blood.” This sentence is missing from some ancient versions and a few Heb. mss.
I let you grow like the plants of the field; and you continued to grow up until you attained to womanhood,cto womanhood Meaning of Heb. uncertain. until your breasts became firm and your hair sprouted.You were still naked and bare
when I passed by you [again] and saw that your time for love had arrived. So I spread My robe over youdSo I spread My robe over you An act symbolizing espousal; cf. note at Deut. 23.1; Ruth 3.9. and covered your nakedness, and I entered into a covenant with you by oath—declares the Sovereign GOD; thus you became Mine.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואעבר
279
עליך
130
ואראך
228
והנה
66
עתך
490
עת
470
דדים
58
ואפרש
587
כנפי
160
עליך
130
ואכסה
92
ערותך
696
ואשבע
379
לך
50
ואבוא
16
בברית
614
אתך
421
נאם
91
אדני
65
יהוה
26
ותהיילי
471
Ezekiel 16:9
Gematria: 1556
וארחצךבמיםואשטףדמיךמעליךואסכךבשמן
I bathed you in water, and washed the blood off you, and anointed you with oil.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וארחצך
325
במים
92
ואשטף
396
דמיך
74
מעליך
170
ואסכך
107
בשמן
392
Ezekiel 16:10
Gematria: 2995
ואלבישךרקמהואנעלךתחשואחבשךבששואכסךמשי
I clothed you with embroidered garments, and gave you sandals of dolphin leatheredolphin leather Or leather of a certain dyed hue. Meaning of Heb. uncertain. to wear, and wound fine linen about your head, and dressed you in silks.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואלבישך
369
רקמה
345
ואנעלך
177
תחש
708
ואחבשך
337
בשש
602
ואכסך
107
משי
350
Ezekiel 16:11
Gematria: 1586
ואעדךעדיואתנהצמידיםעלידיךורבידעלגרונך
I decked you out in finery and put bracelets on your arms and a chain around your neck.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואעדך
101
עדי
84
ואתנה
462
צמידים
194
עלידיך
144
ורביד
222
עלגרונך
379
Ezekiel 16:12
Gematria: 3401
ואתןנזםעלאפךועגיליםעלאזניךועטרתתפארתבראשך
I put a ring in your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a splendid crown on your head.
You adorned yourself with gold and silver, and your apparel was of fine linen, silk, and embroidery. Your food was choice flour, honey, and oil. You grew more and more beautiful, and became fit for royalty.
Your beauty won you fame among the nations, for it was perfected through the splendor that I set upon you—declares the Sovereign GOD.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויצא
107
לך
50
שם
340
בגוים
61
ביפיך
122
כי
30
כליל
90
הוא
12
בהדרי
221
אשרשמתי
1251
עליך
130
נאם
91
אדני
65
יהוה
26
Ezekiel 16:15
Gematria: 4089
ותבטחיביפיךותזניעלשמךותשפכיאתתזנותיךעלכלעוברלויהי
But confident in your beauty and fame, you played the whore: you lavished your favors on every passerby; they were his.fthey were his Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
You even took some of your cloths and made yourself tapestried platformsgtapestried platforms Meaning of Heb. uncertain. and fornicated on them—not in the future; not in time to come.hnot in the future; not in time to come See note at Exod. 25.4.
The food that I had given you—the choice flour, the oil, and the honey that I had provided for you to eat—you set it before them for a pleasing odor.ifor a pleasing odor I.e., as a sacrifice; cf. Lev. 2.2. And so it went—declares the Sovereign GOD.
Now, I will stretch out My arm against you and withhold your maintenance; and I will surrender you to the will of your enemies, the Philistine women, who are shocked by your lewd behavior.
Word-by-Word Analysis
והנה
66
נטיתי
479
ידי
24
עליך
130
ואגרע
280
חקך
128
ואתנך
477
בנפש
432
שנאותיך
787
בנות
458
פלשתים
860
הנכלמות
551
מדרכך
284
זמה
52
Ezekiel 16:28
Gematria: 3712
ותזניאלבניאשורמבלתישבעתךותזניםוגםלאשבעת
In your insatiable lust you also played the whore with the Assyrians; you played the whore with them, but were still unsated.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ותזני
473
אלבני
93
אשור
507
מבלתי
482
שבעתך
792
ותזנים
513
וגם
49
לא
31
שבעת
772
Ezekiel 16:29
Gematria: 4055
ותרביאתתזנותךאלארץכנעןכשדימהוגםבזאתלאשבעת
You multiplied your whoredoms with Chaldea, that land of traders; yet even with this you were not satisfied.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ותרבי
618
אתתזנותך
1284
אלארץ
322
כנען
190
כשדימה
379
וגםבזאת
459
לא
31
שבעת
772
Ezekiel 16:30
Gematria: 3568
מהאמלהלבתךנאםאדנייהוהבעשותךאתכלאלהמעשהאשהזונהשלטת
How sick was your heartkHow sick was your heart Change of vocalization yields “How furious I was with you”; lit. “How I was filled with your fury” (libbat, as in Akkadian and Old Aramaic).—declares the Sovereign GOD—when you did all those things, the acts of a self-willed whore,
You were the opposite of other women: you solicited instead of being solicited; you paid fees instead of being paid fees. Thus you were just the opposite!
Thus said the Sovereign GOD: Because of your brazen effrontery, offering your nakedness to your lovers for whoring—just like the blood of your children, which you gave to all your abominable fetishes:ljust like the blood of your children, which you gave to all your abominable fetishes Construction of Heb. uncertain.—
I will assuredly assemble all the lovers to whom you gave your favors, along with everybody you accepted and everybody you rejected. I will assemble them against you from every quarter, and I will expose your nakedness to them, and they shall see all your nakedness.
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לכן
100
הנני
115
מקבץ
232
אתכלמאהביך
529
אשר
501
ערבת
672
עליהם
155
ואת
407
כלאשר
551
אהבת
408
על
100
כלאשר
551
שנאת
751
וקבצתי
608
אתם
441
עליך
130
מסביב
114
וגליתי
459
ערותך
696
אלהם
76
וראו
213
אתכלערותך
1147
Ezekiel 16:38
Gematria: 3796
ושפטתיךמשפטינאפותושפכתדםונתתיךדםחמהוקנאה
I will inflict upon you the punishment of women who commit adultery and murder, and I will direct bloody and impassioned fury against you.
I will deliver you into their hands, and they shall tear down your eminence and level your mounds; and they shall strip you of your clothing and take away your dazzling jewels, leaving you naked and bare.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ונתתי
866
אתך
421
בידם
56
והרסו
277
גבך
25
ונתצו
552
רמתיך
670
והפשיטו
416
אותך
427
בגדיך
39
ולקחו
150
כלי
60
תפארתך
1101
והניחוך
105
עירם
320
ועריה
291
Ezekiel 16:40
Gematria: 2311
והעלועליךקהלורגמואותךבאבןובתקוךבחרבותם
Then they shall assemble a mob against you to pelt you with stones and pierce you with their swords.
They shall put your houses to the flames and execute punishment upon you in the sight of many women; thus I will put a stop to your whoring, and you shall pay no more fees.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ושרפו
592
בתיך
432
באש
303
ועשובך
404
שפטים
439
לעיני
170
נשים
400
רבות
608
והשבתיך
743
מזונה
108
וגםאתנן
550
לא
31
תתניעוד
940
Ezekiel 16:42
Gematria: 2984
והנחתיחמתיבךוסרהקנאתיממךושקטתיולאאכעסעוד
When I have satisfied My fury upon you and My rage has departed from you, then I will be tranquil; I will be angry no more.
Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but infuriated Me with all those things, I will pay you back for your conductmwill pay you back for your conduct Meaning of Heb. uncertain.—declares the Sovereign GOD.Have you not committed depravity on top of all your other abominations?
Word-by-Word Analysis
יען
130
אשר
501
לאזכרת
658
זכרתי
637
אתימי
461
נעוריך
356
ותרגזילי
666
בכלאלה
88
וגםאני
110
הא
6
דרכך
244
בראש
503
נתתי
860
נאם
91
אדני
65
יהוה
26
ולא
37
עשיתי
790
עשית
780
אתהזמה
458
על
100
כלתועבתיך
958
Ezekiel 16:44
Gematria: 1739
הנהכלהמשלעליךימשללאמרכאמהבתה
Why, everyone who uses proverbs applies to you the proverb “Like mother, like daughter.”
You are the daughter of your mother, who rejected her husband and children. And you are the sister of your sisters, who rejected their husbands and children; for you are daughters of a Hittite mother and an Amorite father.
Your elder sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters to the south of you.
Did you not walk in their ways and practice their abominations? Why, you were almostnalmost Meaning of Heb. uncertain. more corrupt than they in all your ways.
Only this was the sin of your sister Sodom: arrogance! She and her daughters had plenty of bread and untroubled tranquility; yet she did not support the poor and the needy.
Word-by-Word Analysis
הנהזה
72
היה
20
עון
126
סדם
104
אחותך
435
גאון
60
שבעתלחם
850
ושלות
742
השקט
414
היה
20
לה
35
ולבנותיה
509
וידעני
150
ואביון
75
לא
31
החזיקה
135
Ezekiel 16:50
Gematria: 3910
ותגבהינהותעשינהתועבהלפניואסיראתהןכאשרראיתיס
In their haughtiness, they committed abomination before Me; and so I removed them, as you saw.oyou saw Construed as second-person feminine; cf. qere, vv. 47 and 51; and see above vv. 13, 18, 22, 31, 43.
Nor did Samaria commit even half your sins. You committed more abominations than they, and by all the abominations that you committed you made your sisters look righteous.
Truly, you must bear the disgrace of serving as your sisters’ advocate: Since you have sinned more abominably than they, they appear righteous in comparison. So be ashamed and bear your disgrace, because you have made your sisters look righteous.
I will restore their fortunes—the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters—and your fortunes along with theirs.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ושבתי
718
אתשביתהן
1168
אתשבות
1109
שבית
712
סדם
104
ובנותיה
479
ואתשבות
1115
שבית
712
שמרון
596
ובנותיה
479
ושבית
718
ושבות
714
שביתיך
742
בתוכהנה
488
Ezekiel 16:54
Gematria: 3899
למעןתשאיכלמתךונכלמתמכלאשרעשיתבנחמךאתן
Thus you shall bear your disgrace and feel your disgrace for behaving in such a way that they could take comfort.
Then your sister Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, and you and your daughters shall return to your former state.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואחותיך
451
סדם
104
ובנותיה
479
תשבן
752
לקדמתן
624
ושמרון
602
ובנותיה
479
תשבן
752
לקדמתן
624
ואת
407
ובנותיך
494
תשבינה
767
לקדמתכן
644
Ezekiel 16:56
Gematria: 1713
ולואהיתהסדםאחותךלשמועהבפיךביוםגאוניך
Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the days of your pride,
before your own wickedness was exposed? So must you now bear the mockery of the daughters of ArampAram Many Heb. mss. and editions read “Edom.” and all her neighbors, the daughters of Philistia who jeer at you on every side.
Word-by-Word Analysis
בטרם
251
תגלה
438
רעתך
690
כמו
66
עת
470
חרפת
688
בנותארם
699
וכלסביבותיה
551
בנות
458
פלשתים
860
השאטות
721
אותך
427
מסביב
114
Ezekiel 16:58
Gematria: 3568
אתזמתךואתתועבותיךאתנשאתיםנאםיהוהס
You yourself must bear your depravity and your abominations—declares GOD.
You shall remember your ways and feel ashamed, when you receive your older sisters and your younger sisters, and I give them to you as daughters, though they are not of your covenant.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וזכרת
633
אתדרכיך
655
ונכלמת
546
בקחתך
530
אתאחותיך
846
הגדלות
448
ממך
100
אלהקטנות
601
ממך
100
ונתתי
866
אתהן
456
לך
50
לבנות
488
ולא
37
מבריתך
672
Ezekiel 16:62
Gematria: 2683
והקימתיאניאתבריתיאתךוידעתכיאנייהוה
I will establish My covenant with you, and you shall know that I am GOD.
Thus you shall remember and feel shame, and you shall be too abashed to open your mouth again, when I have forgiven you for all that you did—declares the Sovereign GOD.