Ezekiel 16

vayehi devar-Adonai elay lemor

The word of GOD came to me:

ben-adam hoda et-yerushalai͏m et-to'avoteha

O mortal, proclaim Jerusalem’s abominations to her,

ve'amarta koh-amar adonay Elohim lirushalai͏m mekhorotayikh umoledotayikh me'erets hakkena'ani avikh ha'emori ve'immekh khittit

and say: Thus said the Sovereign GOD to Jerusalem: By origin and birth you are from the land of the Canaanites—your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

umoledotayikh beyom hulledet otakh lo-khorrat shorrekh uvemayim lo-rukhatst lemishi vehomleakh lo humlakhat vehokhtel lo khuttalt

As for your birth, when you were born your navel cord was not cut, and you were not bathed in water to smooth you; you were not rubbed with salt, nor were you swaddled.

lo-khasah alayikh ayin la'asot lakh akhat me'elleh lekhumlah alayikh vattushlekhi el-pene hassadeh bego'al nafshekh beyom hulledet otakh

No one pitied you enough to do any one of these things for you out of compassion for you; on the day you were born, you were left lying, rejected, in the open field.

va'e'evor alayikh va'erekh mitboseset bedamayikh va'omar lakh bedamayikh khayi va'omar lakh bedamayikh khayi

When I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you: “Live despite your blood.” Yea, I said to you: “Live despite your blood.”

revavah ketsemakh hassadeh netattikh vattirbi vattigdeli vattavo'i ba'adi adayim shadayim nakhonu use'arekh tsimmeakh ve'at erom ve'eryah

I let you grow like the plants of the field; and you continued to grow up until you attained to womanhood, until your breasts became firm and your hair sprouted. You were still naked and bare

va'e'evor alayikh va'erekh vehinneh ittekh et dodim va'efros kenafi alayikh va'akhasseh ervatekh va'eshava lakh va'avo vivrit otakh ne'um adonay Elohim vattihyi-li

when I passed by you [again] and saw that your time for love had arrived. So I spread My robe over you and covered your nakedness, and I entered into a covenant with you by oath—declares the Sovereign GOD; thus you became Mine.

va'erkhatsekh bammayim va'eshtof damayikh me'alayikh va'asukhekh bashamen

I bathed you in water, and washed the blood off you, and anointed you with oil.

va'albishekh riqmah va'enalekh takhash va'ekhbeshekh bashesh va'akhassekh meshi

I clothed you with embroidered garments, and gave you sandals of dolphin leather to wear, and wound fine linen about your head, and dressed you in silks.

va'edekh edi va'ettenah tsemidim al-yadayikh veravid al-geronekh

I decked you out in finery and put bracelets on your arms and a chain around your neck.

va'etten-nezem al-appekh va'agilim al-oznayikh va'ateret tiferet beroshekh

I put a ring in your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a splendid crown on your head.

vattadi zahav vakhesef umalbushekh (shshy) [shesh] vameshi veriqmah solet udevash vashemen (khlty) [akhalt] vattifi bimod me'od vattitslekhi limlukhah

You adorned yourself with gold and silver, and your apparel was of fine linen, silk, and embroidery. Your food was choice flour, honey, and oil. You grew more and more beautiful, and became fit for royalty.

vayyetse lakh shem baggoyim beyofyekh ki kalil hu bahadari asher-samti alayikh ne'um adonay Elohim

Your beauty won you fame among the nations, for it was perfected through the splendor that I set upon you—declares the Sovereign GOD.

vattivtekhi veyofyekh vattizni al-shemekh vattishpekhi et-taznutayikh al-kol-over lo-yehi

But confident in your beauty and fame, you played the whore: you lavished your favors on every passerby; they were his.

vattiqkhi mibbegadayikh vatta'asi-lakh bamot telu'ot vattizni alehem lo va'ot velo yihyeh

You even took some of your cloths and made yourself tapestried platforms and fornicated on them—not in the future; not in time to come.

vattiqkhi kele tifartekh mizzehavi umikkaspi asher natatti lakh vatta'asi-lakh tsalme zakhar vattizni-vam

You took your beautiful things, made of the gold and silver that I had given you, and you made yourself phallic images and fornicated with them.

vattiqkhi et-bigde riqmatekh vattekhassim veshamni uqetorti (ntty) [natat] lifnehem

You took your embroidered cloths to cover them; and you set My oil and My incense before them.

velakhmi asher-natatti lakh solet vashemen udevash he'ekhaltikh unetattihu lifnehem lereakh nikhoakh vayyehi ne'um adonay Elohim

The food that I had given you—the choice flour, the oil, and the honey that I had provided for you to eat—you set it before them for a pleasing odor. And so it went—declares the Sovereign GOD.

vattiqkhi et-banayikh ve'et-benotayikh asher yaladt li vattizbakhim lahem le'ekhol hame'at (mtznvtkh) [mittaznutayikh]

You even took the sons and daughters that you bore to Me and sacrificed them to those [images] as food—as if your whorings were not enough,

vattishkhati et-banay vattittenim beha'avir otam lahem

you slaughtered My children and presented them as offerings to them!

ve'et kol-to'avotayikh vetaznutayikh lo (zkhrty) [zakhart] et-yeme ne'urayikh bihyotekh erom ve'eryah mitboseset bedamekh hayit

In all your abominations and whorings, you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and lay wallowing in your blood.

vayehi akhare kol-ra'atekh oy oy lakh ne'um adonay Elohim

After all your wickedness (woe, woe to you!)—declares the Sovereign GOD—

vattivni-lakh gav vatta'asi-lakh ramah bekhol-rekhov

you built yourself an eminence and made yourself a mound in every square.

el-kol-rosh derekh banit ramatekh vatteta'avi et-yofyekh vattefasseqi et-raglayikh lekhol-over vattarbi et-[taznutayikh] (tznvtkh)

You built your mound at every crossroad; and you sullied your beauty and spread your legs to every passerby, and you multiplied your whoredoms.

vattizni el-bene-mitsrayim shekhenayikh gidle vasar vattarbi et-taznutekh lehakhiseni

You played the whore with your neighbors, the lustful Egyptians—you multiplied your whoredoms to anger Me.

vehinneh natiti yadi alayikh va'egra khuqqekh va'ettenekh benefesh sone'otayikh benot pelishtim hannikhlamot middarkekh zimmah

Now, I will stretch out My arm against you and withhold your maintenance; and I will surrender you to the will of your enemies, the Philistine women, who are shocked by your lewd behavior.

vattizni el-bene ashur mibbilti sovatekh vattiznim vegam lo sava'at

In your insatiable lust you also played the whore with the Assyrians; you played the whore with them, but were still unsated.

vattarbi et-taznutekh el-erets kena'an kasdimah vegam-bezot lo sava'at

You multiplied your whoredoms with Chaldea, that land of traders; yet even with this you were not satisfied.

mah amulah libbatekh ne'um adonay Elohim ba'asotekh et-kol-elleh ma'aseh isha-zonah shallatet

How sick was your heart—declares the Sovereign GOD—when you did all those things, the acts of a self-willed whore,

bivnotayikh gabbekh berosh kol-derekh veramatekh (shyty) [asit] bekhol-rekhov velo-[hayit] (hyyty) kazzonah leqalles etnan

building your eminence at every crossroad and setting your mound in every square! Yet you were not like a prostitute, for you spurned fees;

ha'isha hammena'afet takhat ishah tiqqakh et-zarim

[you were like] the adulterous wife who welcomes strangers instead of her husband.

lekhol-zonot yittenu-nedeh ve'at natat et-nedanayikh lekhol-me'ahavayikh vattishkhodi otam lavo elayikh missaviv betaznutayikh

Gifts are made to all prostitutes, but you made gifts to all your lovers, and bribed them to come to you from every quarter for your whoring.

vayehi-vakh hefekh min-hannashim betaznutayikh ve'akharayikh lo zunnah uvetittekh etnan ve'etnan lo nittan-lakh vattehi lehefekh

You were the opposite of other women: you solicited instead of being solicited; you paid fees instead of being paid fees. Thus you were just the opposite!

lakhen zonah shimi devar-Adonai

Now, O whore, hear the word of GOD.

koh-amar adonay Elohim ya'an hishafekh nekhushtekh vattiggaleh ervatekh betaznutayikh al-me'ahavayikh ve'al kol-gillule to'avotayikh vekhidme vanayikh asher natat lahem

Thus said the Sovereign GOD: Because of your brazen effrontery, offering your nakedness to your lovers for whoring—just like the blood of your children, which you gave to all your abominable fetishes:—

lakhen hinni meqabbets et-kol-me'ahavayikh asher aravt alehem ve'et kol-asher ahavt al kol-asher sanet veqibbatsti otam alayikh missaviv vegilleti ervatekh alehem vera'u et-kol-ervatekh

I will assuredly assemble all the lovers to whom you gave your favors, along with everybody you accepted and everybody you rejected. I will assemble them against you from every quarter, and I will expose your nakedness to them, and they shall see all your nakedness.

ushefattikh mishpete no'afot veshofekhot dam unetattikh dam khemah veqinah

I will inflict upon you the punishment of women who commit adultery and murder, and I will direct bloody and impassioned fury against you.

venatatti otakh beyadam veharesu gabbekh venittetsu ramotayikh vehifshitu otakh begadayikh velaqekhu kele tifartekh vehinnikhukh erom ve'eryah

I will deliver you into their hands, and they shall tear down your eminence and level your mounds; and they shall strip you of your clothing and take away your dazzling jewels, leaving you naked and bare.

vehe'elu alayikh qahal veragemu otakh ba'aven uvittequkh bekharvotam

Then they shall assemble a mob against you to pelt you with stones and pierce you with their swords.

vesarefu vattayikh ba'esh ve'asu-vakh shefatim le'ene nashim rabbot vehishbattikh mizzonah vegam-etnan lo titteni-od

They shall put your houses to the flames and execute punishment upon you in the sight of many women; thus I will put a stop to your whoring, and you shall pay no more fees.

vahanikhoti khamati bakh vesarah qinati mimmekh veshaqatti velo ekhas od

When I have satisfied My fury upon you and My rage has departed from you, then I will be tranquil; I will be angry no more.

ya'an asher lo-[zakhart] (zkhrty) et-yeme ne'urayikh vattirgezi-li bekhol-elleh vegam-ani he darkekh berosh natatti ne'um adonay Elohim velo (shyty) [asit] et-hazzimmah al kol-to'avotayikh

Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but infuriated Me with all those things, I will pay you back for your conduct—declares the Sovereign GOD. Have you not committed depravity on top of all your other abominations?

hinneh kol-hammoshel alayikh yimshol lemor ke'immah bittah

Why, everyone who uses proverbs applies to you the proverb “Like mother, like daughter.”

bat-immekh at go'elet ishah uvaneha va'akhot akhotekh at asher ga'alu anshehen uvenehen immekhen khittit va'avikhen emori

You are the daughter of your mother, who rejected her husband and children. And you are the sister of your sisters, who rejected their husbands and children; for you are daughters of a Hittite mother and an Amorite father.

va'akhotekh haggedolah shomeron hi uvenoteha hayyoshevet al-semovlekh va'akhotekh haqqetannah mimmekh hayyoshevet miminekh sedom uvenoteha

Your elder sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters to the south of you.

velo vedarkhehen halakht ukheto'avotehen (shyty) [asit] kimat qat vattashkhiti mehen bekhol-derakhayikh

Did you not walk in their ways and practice their abominations? Why, you were almost more corrupt than they in all your ways.

khay-ani ne'um adonay Elohim im-asetah sedom akhotekh hi uvenoteha ka'asher asit at uvenotayikh

As I live—declares the Sovereign GOD—your sister Sodom and her daughters did not do what you and your daughters did.

hinneh-zeh hayah avon sedom akhotekh ga'on sivat-lekhem veshalvat hashqet hayah lah velivnoteha veyad-ani ve'evyon lo hekheziqah

Only this was the sin of your sister Sodom: arrogance! She and her daughters had plenty of bread and untroubled tranquility; yet she did not support the poor and the needy.

vattigbehenah vatta'asenah to'evah lefanay va'asir ethen ka'asher ra'iti

In their haughtiness, they committed abomination before Me; and so I removed them, as you saw.

veshomeron kakhatsi khattotayikh lo khata'ah vattarbi et-to'avotayikh mehennah vattetsaddeqi et-[akhotayikh] (khvtkh) bekhol-to'avotayikh asher (shyty) [asit]

Nor did Samaria commit even half your sins. You committed more abominations than they, and by all the abominations that you committed you made your sisters look righteous.

gam-at se'i khelimmatekh asher pillalt la'akhotekh bekhattotayikh asher-hitavt mehen titsdaqnah mimmekh vegam-at boshi use'i khelimmatekh betsaddeqtekh akhyotekh

Truly, you must bear the disgrace of serving as your sisters’ advocate: Since you have sinned more abominably than they, they appear righteous in comparison. So be ashamed and bear your disgrace, because you have made your sisters look righteous.

veshavti et-shevitehen et-[shevut] (shvyt) sedom uvenoteha ve'et-[shevut] (shvyt) shomeron uvenoteha (vshvyt) [ushevut] shevitayikh betokhahenah

I will restore their fortunes—the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters—and your fortunes along with theirs.

lema'an tisi khelimmatekh venikhlamt mikkol asher asit benakhamekh otan

Thus you shall bear your disgrace and feel your disgrace for behaving in such a way that they could take comfort.

va'akhotayikh sedom uvenoteha tashovena leqadmatan veshomeron uvenoteha tashovena leqadmatan ve'at uvenotayikh teshuvenah leqadmatkhen

Then your sister Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, and you and your daughters shall return to your former state.

velo hayetah sedom akhotekh lishmu'ah befikh beyom ge'onayikh

Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the days of your pride,

beterem tiggaleh ra'atekh kemo et kherpat benot-aram vekhol-sevivoteha benot pelishtim hashatot otakh missaviv

before your own wickedness was exposed? So must you now bear the mockery of the daughters of Aram and all her neighbors, the daughters of Philistia who jeer at you on every side.

et-zimmatekh ve'et-to'avotayikh at nesatim ne'um Adonai

You yourself must bear your depravity and your abominations—declares GOD.

ki khoh amar adonay Elohim (vshyt) [ve'asiti] otakh ka'asher asit asher-bazit alah lehafer berit

Truly, thus said the Sovereign GOD: I will deal with you as you have dealt, for you have spurned the pact and violated the covenant.

vezakharti ani et-beriti otakh bime ne'urayikh vahaqimoti lakh berit olam

Nevertheless, I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish it with you as an everlasting covenant.

vezakhart et-derakhayikh venikhlamt beqakhtekh et-akhotayikh haggedolot mimmekh el-haqqetannot mimmekh venatatti ethen lakh levanot velo mibberitekh

You shall remember your ways and feel ashamed, when you receive your older sisters and your younger sisters, and I give them to you as daughters, though they are not of your covenant.

vahaqimoti ani et-beriti ittakh veyada'at ki-ani Adonai

I will establish My covenant with you, and you shall know that I am GOD.

lema'an tizkeri vavosht velo yihyeh-llakh od pitkhon peh mippene kelimmatekh bekhapperi-lakh lekhol-asher asit ne'um adonay Elohim

Thus you shall remember and feel shame, and you shall be too abashed to open your mouth again, when I have forgiven you for all that you did—declares the Sovereign GOD.