耶路撒冷的不忠
1耶和华对我说： 2“人子啊，你要使耶路撒冷知道她的可憎行径。 3你要告诉她，主耶和华这样对她说，‘你祖居迦南，生于迦南。你的父亲是亚摩利人，母亲是赫人。 4你出生时没人剪断你的脐带，没人用水洗你的身体，用盐擦净你，用布包裹你。 5没有人可怜你，同情你，为你做以上的事。你生下来便遭人厌恶，被扔在野外。
6“‘我从你旁边经过，见你在血泊中挣扎，便对血泊中的你说，活下去！ 7我使你像田间的植物一样茁壮生长。你渐渐发育成熟，长得亭亭玉立，双乳丰满，秀发垂肩，但仍然赤身露体。
8“‘后来我又从你旁边经过，见你正值少女怀春，我便用衣襟遮盖你的身体，向你起誓，与你定下婚约，你便属于我。这是主耶和华说的。 9我用水洗净你身上的血污，给你涂上馨香的油， 10穿上锦绣的衣裳和海狗皮的鞋，披上细麻衣和丝绸外袍。 11我用首饰来装扮你，给你戴上手镯、项链、 12鼻环、耳环和华冠。 13这样，你戴的是金银首饰，穿的是绫罗绸缎，吃的是细面粉、蜂蜜和油。你变得美艳绝伦，晋升为王后。 14你的美貌名扬四方，因为我给你的华贵使你美貌无比。这是主耶和华说的。
15“‘你却仗着自己的美貌和名声纵情淫乱，与所有过路的人苟合。 16你用自己的衣服在拜偶像的地方结彩，在那里行淫。这样的事真是空前绝后！ 17你用我给你的金银首饰为自己制造男人的像，与他们苟合。 18你给他们穿上锦绣衣服，把我给你的膏油和香料供奉他们。 19你把我赐你吃的细面粉、油和蜂蜜作为馨香的供物奉献在他们面前。这是主耶和华说的。 20你还把你给我生的儿女烧作燔祭献给偶像。难道你淫乱还不够吗？ 21你竟屠杀我的儿女，把他们焚烧献给偶像。 22你做这一切可憎、淫乱的事，忘记了你幼年赤身露体，在血泊中挣扎的日子。
23“‘主耶和华说，你有祸了！你有祸了！你不但做了这些恶事， 24还为自己筑祭坛，在各广场建高高的神庙。 25你在街头巷尾建高高的神庙，糟蹋自己的美貌。你向每一个过路的人投怀送抱，纵情淫乱， 26甚至与放纵情欲的邻邦埃及人苟合，激起我的愤怒。 27看吧，我要伸手攻击你，削减你的口粮，把你交给憎恨你的非利士人，任他们宰割。他们会为你的淫荡行为感到羞耻。 28你欲海难填，又跟亚述人行淫，但仍不满足， 29于是又跟那商贾之地的迦勒底人行淫，但仍不满足。
30“‘主耶和华说，你的心败坏至极，简直就像不知羞耻的娼妓， 31因为你在街头巷尾筑祭坛，在广场建高高的神庙，甚至不收淫资，实在连妓女都不如。 32你这荡妇，宁愿跟外人淫乱，也不爱自己的丈夫。 33妓女接受淫资，你却送礼物给所有的情人，引诱他们从四方前来跟你淫乱。 34你卖淫不同于别的妓女，没有人给你淫资，你倒贴钱给人，你真是与众不同。
主对耶路撒冷的审判和应许
35“‘你这淫妇，要听耶和华的话。 36主耶和华说，你放纵情欲，赤身露体地与众情人苟合。你祭拜一切可憎的偶像，把自己儿女的血献给它们。 37因此，我要把你所爱和所恨的情人都聚集起来，从四方攻击你，让你赤裸裸地显露在他们面前，让他们看到你赤身露体。 38我要惩罚你，像惩罚淫乱和杀人的妇女一样。我要把烈怒和义愤倒在你身上，报应你杀人流血的罪。 39我要把你交在你的情人手里。他们必拆毁你的祭坛，夷平你高高的神庙，剥去你的衣裳，夺走你的珠宝，留下你赤身露体。 40他们要聚众攻击你，用石头打你，用刀剑砍碎你， 41烧毁你的房屋，在众妇女面前审判你。我要阻止你的淫乱行为，使你不再倒贴钱给情人。 42这样，我的烈怒才会平息，我的义愤才会消除，我才会平静下来，不再发怒。 43因为你忘记了幼年的日子，做这些事来惹我发怒，我要照你的所作所为报应你。因为你不仅行一切可憎的事，还放荡淫乱。这是主耶和华说的。
44“‘好说俗语的人都会讥讽你说，有其母必有其女。 45你和你母亲及姊妹如出一辙，都厌弃自己的丈夫和儿女。你母亲是赫人，你父亲是亚摩利人。 46你姐姐是撒玛利亚，她和她的女儿们住在你的北面。你妹妹是所多玛，她和她的女儿们住在你的南面。 47你不仅追随她们可憎的行径，还很快超过了她们。 48我凭我的永恒起誓，与你妹妹所多玛和她女儿们相比，你和你女儿们的行径有过之而无不及。这是主耶和华说的。 49看啊，你妹妹所多玛和她的女儿们傲慢狂妄，安逸饱足，对穷困的人漠不关心。 50她们心骄气傲，在我面前做可憎的事，我看见后便除掉了她们。 51撒玛利亚的罪还不及你的一半，你做的事比她们做的更可憎，以致与你相比，你的姊妹倒显得公义了。 52既然你帮了你的姊妹，使她们显得公义，你就蒙受羞辱吧！因为你犯的罪比你姊妹犯的罪更可憎，以致她们显得比你更公义。因此，你就自取其辱，抱愧蒙羞吧！
53“‘然而，我要使所多玛、撒玛利亚及她们的女儿们复兴，并使你一同复兴， 54让你自取其辱，深感羞愧，因为你的一切恶行使她们反得安慰。 55你姊妹所多玛、撒玛利亚和她们的众女儿，以及你和你的众女儿必恢复起初的光景。 56-57在你骄傲的日子，你的恶行还没有被揭露的时候，你觉得妹妹所多玛不屑一提。但现在，你却成为以东的众女儿和她四邻非利士的众女儿的笑柄。你周围的人都鄙视你。 58你要承担淫荡和可憎行径带来的惩罚。这是耶和华说的。
59“‘主耶和华说，你背誓毁约，我必照你的所作所为报应你。 60然而，我顾念在你幼年时与你所立的约，我要与你立一个永远的约。 61你接纳你姊妹的时候，会想起自己的所作所为并自觉羞愧。我要将你姊妹赐给你作女儿，我这样做并不是出于我与你所立的约。 62我要和你立约，使你知道我是耶和华。 63我要赦免你所有的罪，那时你想起这事会羞愧难当，不敢再开口。这是主耶和华说的。’”
1Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, 3And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.16.3 birth: Heb. cutting out, or, habitation 4And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.16.4 to supple…: or, when I looked upon thee 5None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
6¶ And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.16.6 polluted: or, trodden under foot 7I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.16.7 caused…: Heb. made thee a million16.7 excellent…: Heb. ornament of ornaments 8Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine. 9Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.16.9 blood: Heb. bloods 10I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk. 11I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck. 12And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.16.12 forehead: Heb. nose 13Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom. 14And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.
15¶ But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. 16And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. 17Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,16.17 of men: Heb. of a male 18And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them. 19My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.16.19 a sweet…: Heb. a savour of rest 20Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,16.20 to be…: Heb. to devour 21That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them? 22And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood. 23And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;) 24That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.16.24 eminent…: or, brothel house 25Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms. 26Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. 27Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.16.27 daughters: or, cities 28Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied. 29Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith. 30How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman; 31In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;16.31 In that thou buildest…: or, In thy daughters is thine, etc 32But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband! 33They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.16.33 hirest: Heb. bribest 34And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.
35¶ Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD: 36Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them; 37Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness. 38And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.16.38 as: Heb. with judgments of 39And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.16.39 thy fair…: Heb. instruments of thine ornament 40They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords. 41And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more. 42So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry. 43Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
44¶ Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. 45Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite. 46And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.16.46 thy younger: Heb. lesser than thou 47Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.16.47 as if…: or, that was lothed as a small thing 48As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. 49Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 50And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good. 51Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done. 52Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters. 53When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them: 54That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them. 55When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate. 56For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,16.56 mentioned: Heb. for a report, or, hearing16.56 pride: Heb. prides, or, excellencies 57Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.16.57 Syria: Heb. Aram16.57 despise: or, spoil 58Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.16.58 borne: Heb. borne them 59For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
60¶ Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant. 61Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant. 62And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: 63That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.
