¹And the word of the Lord came to me and said, ²“Son of Adam, make Jerusalem's abominations known to her, ³and say, ‘This is what my Lord the Lord says to Jerusalem: «Your conception and your birth are from the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother was a Hittite. ⁴And as for your birth, on the day when you were born, your umbilical cord was not cut, and you were not washed clean in water, and you were not cleansed with salty water at all, nor were you wrapped in swaddling clothes at all. ⁵Not an eye had pity on you, by doing just one of these things to you, to have compassion on you, and you were cast into the open field because of your loathsomeness on the day when you were given birth. ⁶When I passed through you, I saw you trodden under foot in your own blood, and I said to you in your own blood, ‹Live›, and again I said to you in your own blood, ‹Live.› ⁷I made you ten thousand inhabitants strong like the wild vegetation, and you increased and become great, and you proceeded to the height of ornamentation. Your breasts matured, and your hair grew, whereas you were naked and destitute. ⁸When I passed through you, I looked at you, and behold, your time was the time of love, and I spread my wing over you, and I covered your nakedness, and I swore to you, and I entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord, the Lord, and you became mine. ⁹And I washed you with water, and I rinsed your blood off you, and I anointed you with oil. ¹⁰And I clothed you with embroidery, and I shod you with badger skin, and I girded you with fine linen, and I covered you with silk. ¹¹And I adorned you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain round your neck. ¹²And I put a nosering on your nose, and earrings on your ears, and a magnificent crown on your head. ¹³And you adorned yourself with gold and silver, and your apparel was fine linen and silk and embroidery, and you ate fine flour products and honey and oil, and you became beautiful in the extreme, and you became a prosperous kingdom. ¹⁴And your fame went out among the nations for your beauty, for it was perfect, a testimony to my majesty which I placed on you, says the Lord, the Lord. ¹⁵But you put trust in your beauty, and you prostituted yourself with your fame, and you poured your prostitution on every passer-by; it became his. ¹⁶And you took some of your garments, and you made yourself draped idolatrous high places, and you committed prostitution at them, saying, ‹They will not come, and it will not be.› ¹⁷And you took your magnificent articles, made from my gold and my silver which I gave you, and you made yourself images of the male organ, and you committed prostitution with them. ¹⁸And you have taken your embroidered garments, and you have covered them, and you have placed my oil and my incense in front of them. ¹⁹And there is my food which I gave you – fine flour and oil and honey with which I fed you, but you set it before them as sweet fragrance, and that is what it became, says the Lord, the Lord. ²⁰And you took your sons and your daughters whom you bore me, and you sacrificed them to the images, to be consumed. Is it a small matter among your prostitutions ²¹that you have slaughtered my sons and surrendered them, to have them pass over fire for the images? ²²And with all your abominations and prostitutions you have not remembered the days of your youth when you were naked and destitute – when you were trodden under foot in your own blood. ²³And it came to pass after all your wrongdoing – woe, woe to you, says the Lord, the Lord – ²⁴that you built yourself an idolatrous mound, and you made yourself a high place in every street. ²⁵You have built your high place at the head of every road, and you have made your beauty an abomination, and you have opened your legs to every passer-by, and you have been profuse in your prostitution. ²⁶And you have engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians your neighbours, who are very lustful, and you have been profuse in your prostitution, so as to provoke me to anger. ²⁷So look, I have stretched my hand out over you, and I have diminished your privileged position, and I have delivered you to the will of those who hate you – the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way. ²⁸And you have engaged in prostitution with the Assyrians because of your insatiability, and you have been promiscuous with them, and indeed were not satiated. ²⁹And you have increased your prostitution in the land of Canaan the Chaldean way, and also in this you were not satiated. ³⁰How weak-willed your heart is, says the Lord, the Lord, in that you do all these things. It is the practice of a self-willed prostitute. ³¹In your satellite villages is your idolatrous mound, at the head of every road, and you have built your high place in every street, but you have not been like a prostitute, in that you have been scornful of taking immoral earnings. ³²You are an adulterous woman who takes strangers instead of her husband. ³³To all prostitutes one gives fees, but you have given your gratuities to all your lovers, and you have bribed them to come to you from all around in your prostitutions. ³⁴So it has been with you in your prostitutions the opposite of what other women do, in that sexual favour has not been sought from you, and in that you have given a gratuity, and no gratuity was given to you. So you have been the opposite.» ³⁵Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the Lord. ³⁶This is what my Lord the Lord says: «Because of the squandering of your copper money, and because your nakedness has been revealed in your prostitutions with your lovers and with all your abominable idols, and by the blood of your sons whom you gave to them, ³⁷I am about to gather up all your lovers with whom you have been familiar, and all whom you have loved, with all whom you have hated, and I will gather them up against you from round about, and I will reveal your nakedness to them, and they will see all your nakedness. ³⁸And I will judge you with the judgments for women who commit adultery and who shed blood, and I will deliver you up to furious bloodshed and jealousy. ³⁹And I will deliver you into their hand, and they will flatten your idolatrous mound and demolish your high places, and they will strip you of your clothes, and they will take your magnificent articles and leave you naked and destitute. ⁴⁰And they will bring a contingent up against you, and they will stone you with boulders, and they will cut you to pieces with their swords. ⁴¹And they will burn your houses with fire, and they will pass judgments on you in the sight of many women. So I will stop you from being a prostitute, and also you will no longer give a gratuity for services. ⁴²But I will give rest to my anger on you, and my jealousy will depart from you, and I will have rest and will no longer be angry. ⁴³Since you have not remembered the days of your youth, but you have been stirred up against me with all these things, now look, I for my part will put your way on your head, says the Lord, the Lord, and you will not commit this lewdness with all your abominations. ⁴⁴Look, everyone who speaks in proverbs will speak a proverb against you and say, ‹As the mother is, so is her daughter.› ⁴⁵You are your mother's daughter who loathes her husband and her sons, and you are the sister of your sisters who loathed their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite and your father was an Amorite. ⁴⁶Now your elder sister is Samaria – she and her daughters – and she is situated to your left. And the sister of yours who is younger than you, who is situated to your right, is Sodom and her daughters. ⁴⁷And you didn't walk in their ways, or commit their abominations. But in just a short time, you became more perverse than them in all your ways. ⁴⁸As I live, says the Lord, the Lord, Sodom your sister – she and her daughters – have certainly not done what you and your daughters have done. ⁴⁹Look, this is what the iniquity of Sodom your sister was: that she and her daughters had pride, immoderation with food, and nonchalant ease, and she did not improve the circumstances of the poor and needy. ⁵⁰And they were arrogant, and they committed an abomination before me, so I removed them because of what I saw. ⁵¹And Samaria has not committed half of your sins, but you have multiplied your abominations more than them, and you have justified your sister with all your abominations which you have committed. ⁵²You too, bear your ignominy, you who have charged your sister with your own sins by which you have acted more abominably than them. They are more righteous than you, so you for your part be ashamed and bear your ignominy in your justifying your sister. ⁵³But I will reverse their deportation – the deportation of Sodom and her daughters, and the deportation of Samaria and her daughters, and the deportation of your body of deportees among them – ⁵⁴so that you bear your ignominy, and you suffer ignominy for everything you did when you gave them comfort. ⁵⁵And 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. ⁵⁶For your sister Sodom did not get a mention by you, at the time when you were behaving arrogantly, ⁵⁷before your wrongdoing was exposed, as it was at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Aramaea and all its surrounding areas – of the daughters of the Philistines round about who despise you. ⁵⁸You will bear your lewdness and your abominations, says the Lord.» ⁵⁹For this is what my Lord the Lord says: «I will yet deal with you as you have dealt, in that you have despised an oath, in breaking a covenant. ⁶⁰But I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an age-abiding covenant for you. ⁶¹Then you will remember your ways, and you will feel ashamed when you take back your sisters, those older than you as well as those younger than you, when I give them to you as daughters, but not by your covenant. ⁶²But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the Lord, ⁶³so that you remember and are ashamed and no longer open your mouth, because of your ignominy when I pardon everything you have done, says the Lord, the Lord.» ’ ”