The Everlasting Covenant

And your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, because the splendor I had given you made your beauty perfect, declares the Sovereign Lord . 

But you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to become a prostitute.

You lavished your favors on anyone who passed by and your beauty became his.

You took some of your garments to make gaudy high places, where you carried on your prostitution.

You went to him, and he possessed your beauty. 

You also took the fine jewelry I gave you, the jewelry made of my gold and silver, and you made for yourself male idols and engaged in prostitution with them. And you took your embroidered clothes to put on them, and you offered my oil and incense before them. Also the food I provided for you—the flour, olive oil and honey I gave you to eat—you offered as fragrant incense before them. That is what happened, declares the Sovereign Lord . 

You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.

In all your detestable practices and your prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, kicking about in your blood. 

“ ‘Woe! Woe to you, declares the Sovereign Lord. In addition to all your other wickedness, At every street corner you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty, spreading your legs with increasing promiscuity to anyone who passed by.

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

You engaged in prostitution with the Assyrians too, because you were insatiable; and even after that, you still were not satisfied.

  “ ‘I am filled with fury against you, declares the Sovereign Lord , when you do all these things, acting like a brazen prostitute! When you built your mounds at every street corner and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were unlike a prostitute, because you scorned payment. 

“ ‘You adulterous wife! You prefer strangers to your own husband!

All prostitutes receive gifts, but you give gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors. So in your prostitution you are the opposite of others; no one runs after you for your favors. You are the very opposite, for you give payment and none is given to you. 

“ ‘Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the Lord ! This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you poured out your lust and exposed your naked body in your promiscuity with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because you gave them your children’s blood, therefore I am going to gather all your lovers, with whom you found pleasure, those you loved as well as those you hated. 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 jewelry and leave you stark naked. They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and hack you to pieces with their swords. They will burn down your houses and inflict punishment on you in the sight of many women.

I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer pay your lovers, declares the Sovereign Lord .

(Hittite, Amorite, Sodom, Samariah) You not only followed their ways and copied their detestable practices, but in all your ways you soon became more depraved than they, and have made your sisters seem righteous by all these things you have done.

So then, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous. 

However, I will restore the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters and of Samaria and her daughters, and your fortunes along with them, so that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you have done in giving them comfort.

And your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to what they were before; and you and your daughters will return to what you were before.

“ ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will deal with you as you deserve, because you have despised my oath by breaking the covenant. Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
So I will establish my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the Lord. 

Then, when I make atonement for you for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your humiliation, declares the Sovereign Lord .’ ”

Ezekiel 16:14‭-‬63

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