"A Day Which Will Live In Infamy"
Deuteronomy 12 (NASB)
1 These are the statutes and the judgments which you shall carefully observe in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess as long as you live on the earth.2 You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.3 You shall tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and burn their Asherim with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods and obliterate their name from that place.4 You shall not act like this toward the LORD your God.5 But you shall seek the LORD at the place which the LORD your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come.6 There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contribution of your hand, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.7 There also you and your households shall eat before the LORD your God, and rejoice in all your undertakings in which the LORD your God has blessed you.8 You shall not do at all what we are doing here today, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes;9 for you have not as yet come to the resting place and the inheritance which the LORD your God is giving you.10 When you cross the Jordan and live in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies around you so that you live in security,11 then it shall come about that the place in which the LORD your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all your choice votive offerings which you will vow to the LORD.12 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance with you.13 Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every cultic place you see,14 but in the place which the LORD chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.15 However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, whatever you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.17 You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, or any of your votive offerings which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the contribution of your hand.18 But you shall eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God will choose, you and your son and daughter, and your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all your undertakings.19 Be careful that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.20 When the LORD your God extends your border as He has promised you, and you say, I will eat meat, because you desire to eat meat, then you may eat meat, whatever you desire.21 If the place which the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you may slaughter of your herd and flock which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates whatever you desire.22 Just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten, so you will eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.23 Only be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.24 You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.25 You shall not eat it, so that it may be well with you and your sons after you, for you will be doing what is right in the sight of the LORD.26 Only your holy things which you may have and your votive offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD chooses.27 And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, and you shall eat the flesh.28 Be careful to listen to all these words which I command you, so that it may be well with you and your sons after you forever, for you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.29 When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations which you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,30 beware that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods, that I also may do likewise?31 You shall not behave thus toward the LORD your God, for every abominable act which the LORD hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.32 Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take away from it.
1 These are the statutes and the judgments which you shall carefully observe in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess as long as you live on the earth.2 You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.3 You shall tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and burn their Asherim with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods and obliterate their name from that place.4 You shall not act like this toward the LORD your God.5 But you shall seek the LORD at the place which the LORD your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come.6 There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contribution of your hand, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.7 There also you and your households shall eat before the LORD your God, and rejoice in all your undertakings in which the LORD your God has blessed you.8 You shall not do at all what we are doing here today, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes;9 for you have not as yet come to the resting place and the inheritance which the LORD your God is giving you.10 When you cross the Jordan and live in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies around you so that you live in security,11 then it shall come about that the place in which the LORD your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all your choice votive offerings which you will vow to the LORD.12 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance with you.13 Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every cultic place you see,14 but in the place which the LORD chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.15 However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, whatever you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.17 You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, or any of your votive offerings which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the contribution of your hand.18 But you shall eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God will choose, you and your son and daughter, and your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all your undertakings.19 Be careful that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.20 When the LORD your God extends your border as He has promised you, and you say, I will eat meat, because you desire to eat meat, then you may eat meat, whatever you desire.21 If the place which the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you may slaughter of your herd and flock which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates whatever you desire.22 Just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten, so you will eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.23 Only be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.24 You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.25 You shall not eat it, so that it may be well with you and your sons after you, for you will be doing what is right in the sight of the LORD.26 Only your holy things which you may have and your votive offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD chooses.27 And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, and you shall eat the flesh.28 Be careful to listen to all these words which I command you, so that it may be well with you and your sons after you forever, for you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.29 When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations which you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,30 beware that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods, that I also may do likewise?31 You shall not behave thus toward the LORD your God, for every abominable act which the LORD hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.32 Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take away from it.
Psalms 106 (NASB)
1 Praise the LORD! Oh give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; For His lovingkindness is everlasting.2 Who can speak of the mighty deeds of the LORD, Or can show forth all His praise?3 How blessed are those who keep justice, Who practice righteousness at all times!4 Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor toward Your people; Visit me with Your salvation,5 That I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, That I may glory with Your inheritance.6 We have sinned like our fathers, We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.7 Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; They did not remember Your abundant kindnesses, But rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.8 Nevertheless He saved them for the sake of His name, That He might make His power known.9 Thus He rebuked the Red Sea and it dried up, And He led them through the deeps, as through the wilderness.10 So He saved them from the hand of the one who hated them, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.11 The waters covered their adversaries; Not one of them was left.12 Then they believed His words; They sang His praise.13 They quickly forgot His works; They did not wait for His counsel,14 But craved intensely in the wilderness, And tempted God in the desert.15 So He gave them their request, But sent a wasting disease among them.16 When they became envious of Moses in the camp, And of Aaron, the holy one of the LORD,17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And engulfed the company of Abiram.18 And a fire blazed up in their company; The flame consumed the wicked.19 They made a calf in Horeb And worshiped a molten image.20 Thus they exchanged their glory For the image of an ox that eats grass.21 They forgot God their Savior, Who had done great things in Egypt,22 Wonders in the land of Ham And awesome things by the Red Sea.23 Therefore He said that He would destroy them, Had not Moses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him, To turn away His wrath from destroying them.24 Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe in His word,25 But grumbled in their tents; They did not listen to the voice of the LORD.26 Therefore He swore to them That He would cast them down in the wilderness,27 And that He would cast their seed among the nations And scatter them in the lands.28 They joined themselves also to Baal-peor, And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.29 Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds, And the plague broke out among them.30 Then Phinehas stood up and interposed, And so the plague was stayed.31 And it was reckoned to him for righteousness, To all generations forever.32 They also provoked Him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, So that it went hard with Moses on their account;33 Because they were rebellious against His Spirit, He spoke rashly with his lips.34 They did not destroy the peoples, As the LORD commanded them,35 But they mingled with the nations And learned their practices,36 And served their idols, Which became a snare to them.37 They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons,38 And shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and their daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with the blood.39 Thus they became unclean in their practices, And played the harlot in their deeds.40 Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against His people And He abhorred His inheritance.41 Then He gave them into the hand of the nations, And those who hated them ruled over them.42 Their enemies also oppressed them, And they were subdued under their power.43 Many times He would deliver them; They, however, were rebellious in their counsel, And so sank down in their iniquity.44 Nevertheless He looked upon their distress When He heard their cry;45 And He remembered His covenant for their sake, And relented according to the greatness of His lovingkindness.46 He also made them objects of compassion In the presence of all their captors.47 Save us, O LORD our God, And gather us from among the nations, To give thanks to Your holy name And glory in Your praise.48 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, From everlasting even to everlasting. And let all the people say, Amen. Praise the LORD!
1 Praise the LORD! Oh give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; For His lovingkindness is everlasting.2 Who can speak of the mighty deeds of the LORD, Or can show forth all His praise?3 How blessed are those who keep justice, Who practice righteousness at all times!4 Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor toward Your people; Visit me with Your salvation,5 That I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, That I may glory with Your inheritance.6 We have sinned like our fathers, We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.7 Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; They did not remember Your abundant kindnesses, But rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.8 Nevertheless He saved them for the sake of His name, That He might make His power known.9 Thus He rebuked the Red Sea and it dried up, And He led them through the deeps, as through the wilderness.10 So He saved them from the hand of the one who hated them, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.11 The waters covered their adversaries; Not one of them was left.12 Then they believed His words; They sang His praise.13 They quickly forgot His works; They did not wait for His counsel,14 But craved intensely in the wilderness, And tempted God in the desert.15 So He gave them their request, But sent a wasting disease among them.16 When they became envious of Moses in the camp, And of Aaron, the holy one of the LORD,17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And engulfed the company of Abiram.18 And a fire blazed up in their company; The flame consumed the wicked.19 They made a calf in Horeb And worshiped a molten image.20 Thus they exchanged their glory For the image of an ox that eats grass.21 They forgot God their Savior, Who had done great things in Egypt,22 Wonders in the land of Ham And awesome things by the Red Sea.23 Therefore He said that He would destroy them, Had not Moses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him, To turn away His wrath from destroying them.24 Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe in His word,25 But grumbled in their tents; They did not listen to the voice of the LORD.26 Therefore He swore to them That He would cast them down in the wilderness,27 And that He would cast their seed among the nations And scatter them in the lands.28 They joined themselves also to Baal-peor, And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.29 Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds, And the plague broke out among them.30 Then Phinehas stood up and interposed, And so the plague was stayed.31 And it was reckoned to him for righteousness, To all generations forever.32 They also provoked Him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, So that it went hard with Moses on their account;33 Because they were rebellious against His Spirit, He spoke rashly with his lips.34 They did not destroy the peoples, As the LORD commanded them,35 But they mingled with the nations And learned their practices,36 And served their idols, Which became a snare to them.37 They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons,38 And shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and their daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with the blood.39 Thus they became unclean in their practices, And played the harlot in their deeds.40 Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against His people And He abhorred His inheritance.41 Then He gave them into the hand of the nations, And those who hated them ruled over them.42 Their enemies also oppressed them, And they were subdued under their power.43 Many times He would deliver them; They, however, were rebellious in their counsel, And so sank down in their iniquity.44 Nevertheless He looked upon their distress When He heard their cry;45 And He remembered His covenant for their sake, And relented according to the greatness of His lovingkindness.46 He also made them objects of compassion In the presence of all their captors.47 Save us, O LORD our God, And gather us from among the nations, To give thanks to Your holy name And glory in Your praise.48 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, From everlasting even to everlasting. And let all the people say, Amen. Praise the LORD!
Ezekiel 16 (NASB)
1 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,2 Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations3 and say, Thus says the Lord 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, on 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 open field, 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 made you 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, you were at the time for love; so I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. I also swore to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became Mine, declares the Lord GOD.9 Then I bathed you with water, washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil.10 I also clothed you with embroidered 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 bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck.12 I also put a ring in your nostril, earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.13 Thus you were adorned with gold 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 royalty.14 Then your fame went forth among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.15 But you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot because of your fame, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by 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, which should never come about nor happen.17 You also took your beautiful jewels 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 My bread which I gave you, fine flour, oil and honey with which I fed you, 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 Me and sacrificed them to idols to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter?21 You slaughtered My children and offered them up to idols by causing them to pass through the fire.22 Besides all your abominations and harlotries you did not remember the days of your 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 shrine and made yourself a high place in every square.25 You built yourself a high place at the top of every 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 lustful neighbors, and multiplied your harlotry to make 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 daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd conduct.28 Moreover, you played the harlot with the Assyrians 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 languishing is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, while you do all these things, the actions of a bold-faced harlot.31 When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every square, in disdaining money, you were not like a harlot.32 You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!33 Men give gifts to all harlots, but you give 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 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 idols, and because of the blood of your sons which you gave to idols,37 therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, even all those whom you loved and all those whom you hated. So I will gather them against you from every direction and expose your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness.38 Thus I will judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.39 I will also give you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and will leave you naked and bare.40 They will incite a crowd against you and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.41 They will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. Then I will stop you from playing the harlot, and you will also no longer pay your lovers.42 So I will calm My fury against you and My jealousy will depart from you, and I will be pacified and angry no more.43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged Me by all these things, behold, I in turn will bring 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 proverbs will quote this proverb concerning you, saying, Like mother, like daughter.45 You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You are also the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.46 Now your older sister is Samaria, who lives north of you with her daughters; and your younger sister, who lives south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.47 Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they.48 As I live, declares the Lord GOD, Sodom, your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.49 Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.50 Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them 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 righteous by all your abominations which you have committed.52 Also bear your disgrace in that you have made judgment favorable for your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more 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 along with them your own captivity,54 in order that you may bear your humiliation and feel ashamed for all that you have done when you become a consolation to them.55 Your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, 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 wickedness was uncovered, so now you have become the reproach of the daughters of Edom and of all who are around her, of the daughters of the Philistines--those surrounding you who despise you.58 You have borne 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 despised 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 everlasting covenant with you.61 Then you will remember 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 establish My covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the LORD,63 so that you may remember and be ashamed and never open your mouth anymore because of your humiliation, when I have forgiven you for all that you have done, the Lord GOD declares.
1 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,2 Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations3 and say, Thus says the Lord 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, on 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 open field, 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 made you 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, you were at the time for love; so I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. I also swore to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became Mine, declares the Lord GOD.9 Then I bathed you with water, washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil.10 I also clothed you with embroidered 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 bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck.12 I also put a ring in your nostril, earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.13 Thus you were adorned with gold 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 royalty.14 Then your fame went forth among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.15 But you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot because of your fame, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by 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, which should never come about nor happen.17 You also took your beautiful jewels 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 My bread which I gave you, fine flour, oil and honey with which I fed you, 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 Me and sacrificed them to idols to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter?21 You slaughtered My children and offered them up to idols by causing them to pass through the fire.22 Besides all your abominations and harlotries you did not remember the days of your 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 shrine and made yourself a high place in every square.25 You built yourself a high place at the top of every 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 lustful neighbors, and multiplied your harlotry to make 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 daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd conduct.28 Moreover, you played the harlot with the Assyrians 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 languishing is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, while you do all these things, the actions of a bold-faced harlot.31 When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every square, in disdaining money, you were not like a harlot.32 You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!33 Men give gifts to all harlots, but you give 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 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 idols, and because of the blood of your sons which you gave to idols,37 therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, even all those whom you loved and all those whom you hated. So I will gather them against you from every direction and expose your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness.38 Thus I will judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.39 I will also give you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and will leave you naked and bare.40 They will incite a crowd against you and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.41 They will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. Then I will stop you from playing the harlot, and you will also no longer pay your lovers.42 So I will calm My fury against you and My jealousy will depart from you, and I will be pacified and angry no more.43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged Me by all these things, behold, I in turn will bring 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 proverbs will quote this proverb concerning you, saying, Like mother, like daughter.45 You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You are also the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.46 Now your older sister is Samaria, who lives north of you with her daughters; and your younger sister, who lives south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.47 Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they.48 As I live, declares the Lord GOD, Sodom, your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.49 Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.50 Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them 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 righteous by all your abominations which you have committed.52 Also bear your disgrace in that you have made judgment favorable for your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more 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 along with them your own captivity,54 in order that you may bear your humiliation and feel ashamed for all that you have done when you become a consolation to them.55 Your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, 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 wickedness was uncovered, so now you have become the reproach of the daughters of Edom and of all who are around her, of the daughters of the Philistines--those surrounding you who despise you.58 You have borne 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 despised 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 everlasting covenant with you.61 Then you will remember 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 establish My covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the LORD,63 so that you may remember and be ashamed and never open your mouth anymore because of your humiliation, when I have forgiven you for all that you have done, the Lord GOD declares.