The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 16:20 (NASB)

“Furthermore, you took your sons and daughters whom you had borne to Me and sacrificed them to idols
to be devoured. Were your obscene practices a trivial matter?

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 16:21 (NKJV)
that you have slain My children and offered them up to them by causing them to pass through the fire?

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 16:22 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
And in all thine abominations and thy harlotries thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast wallowing in thy blood.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 16:23 (NIV)

“‘Woe! Woe to you, declares the Sovereign Lord. In addition to all your other wickedness,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 16:24 (NIV)

you built a mound for yourself and made a lofty shrine in every public square.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 16:25 (NIV)

At every street corner you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty, spreading your legs with increasing
promiscuity to anyone who passed by.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 16:26 (NIV)

You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your neighbors with large genitals, and aroused my anger
with your increasing promiscuity

 

[LoveinChrist]

Ezekiel 16:27 (NKJV)

“Behold, therefore, I stretched out My hand against you, diminished your [j]allotment, and gave you up to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.

 

[LoveinChrist]

Ezekiel 16:28 (NKJV)

You also played the harlot with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; indeed you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 16:29 (NKJV)
Moreover you multiplied your acts of harlotry as far as the land of the trader, Chaldea; and even then you were not satisfied.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 16:30 (NKJV)
“How degenerate is your heart!” says the Lord GOD, “seeing you do all these things, the deeds of a brazen harlot.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 16:31 (CSB)

building your mound at the head of every street and making your elevated place in every square.
But you were unlike a prostitute because you scorned payment.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 16:32 (CSB)

You adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!

 

[LoveinChrist]

Ezekiel 16:33 (NKJV)

Men make payment to all harlots, but you made your payments to all your lovers, and [l]hired them to come to you from all around for your harlotry.

 

[LoveinChrist]

Ezekiel 16:34 (NKJV)

You are the opposite of other women in your harlotry, because no one solicited you to be a harlot. In that you gave payment but no payment was given you, therefore you are the opposite

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 16:35 (NKJV)
‘Now then, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD!

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 16:36 (NKJV)
Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because your filthiness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotry with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them,

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 16:37 (NKJV)
surely, therefore, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved, and all those you hated; I will gather them from all around against you and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 16:38 (NKJV)
And I will judge you as women who break wedlock or shed blood are judged; I will bring blood upon you in fury and jealousy.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 16:39 (NIV)

Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your mounds and destroy your lofty shrines. They will strip you of your clothes and take your fine jewellery and leave you stark naked.