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Ezekiel 16:13-16 (Listen)

13 Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. sYou ate fine flour and honey and oil. tYou grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty. 14 And uyour renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord God.

15 v“But you trusted in your beauty wand played the whore1 because of your renown xand lavished your whorings2 on any passerby; your beauty3 became his. 16 You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.4

Footnotes

[1] 16:15 Or were unfaithful; also verses 16, 17, 26, 28
[2] 16:15 Or unfaithfulness; also verses 20, 22, 25, 26, 29, 33, 34, 36
[3] 16:15 Hebrew it
[4] 16:16 The meaning of this Hebrew sentence is uncertain