Ezekiel 16:25   (Read all of Ezekiel 16)

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

Ezekiel 16:26   (Read all of Ezekiel 16)

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

Ezekiel 16:28   (Read all of Ezekiel 16)

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

Ezekiel 16:29   (Read all of Ezekiel 16)

Then you increased your promiscuity to include Babylonia, a land of merchants, but even with this you were not satisfied.

Ezekiel 16:30   (Read all of Ezekiel 16)

" 'I am filled with fury against you, declares the Sovereign Lord, when you do all these things, acting like a brazen prostitute!

Ezekiel 16:31   (Read all of Ezekiel 16)

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.

Ezekiel 16:33   (Read all of Ezekiel 16)

All prostitutes receive gifts, but you give gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.

Ezekiel 16:34   (Read all of Ezekiel 16)

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.

Ezekiel 16:35   (Read all of Ezekiel 16)

" 'Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the Lord!

Ezekiel 16:36   (Read all of Ezekiel 16)

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,

Ezekiel 16:41   (Read all of Ezekiel 16)

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.

Ezekiel 16:44   (Read all of Ezekiel 16)

" 'Everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: "Like mother, like daughter."

Ezekiel 17:6   (Read all of Ezekiel 17)

and it sprouted and became a low, spreading vine. Its branches turned toward him, but its roots remained under it. So it became a vine and produced branches and put out leafy boughs.

Ezekiel 17:8   (Read all of Ezekiel 17)

It had been planted in good soil by abundant water so that it would produce branches, bear fruit and become a splendid vine.'

Ezekiel 17:23   (Read all of Ezekiel 17)

On the mountain heights of Israel I will plant it; it will produce branches and bear fruit and become a splendid cedar. Birds of every kind will nest in it; they will find shelter in the shade of its branches.

Ezekiel 18:2   (Read all of Ezekiel 18)

"What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: " 'The parents eat sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge'?

Ezekiel 18:3   (Read all of Ezekiel 18)

"As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel.

Ezekiel 18:7   (Read all of Ezekiel 18)

He does not oppress anyone, but returns what he took in pledge for a loan. He does not commit robbery but gives his food to the hungry and provides clothing for the naked.

Ezekiel 18:8   (Read all of Ezekiel 18)

He does not lend to them at interest or take a profit from them. He withholds his hand from doing wrong and judges fairly between two parties.

Ezekiel 18:13   (Read all of Ezekiel 18)

He lends at interest and takes a profit. Will such a man live? He will not! Because he has done all these detestable things, he is to be put to death; his blood will be on his own head.

Ezekiel 18:16   (Read all of Ezekiel 18)

He does not oppress anyone or require a pledge for a loan. He does not commit robbery but gives his food to the hungry and provides clothing for the naked.

Ezekiel 18:17   (Read all of Ezekiel 18)

He withholds his hand from mistreating the poor and takes no interest or profit from them. He keeps my laws and follows my decrees. He will not die for his father's sin; he will surely live.

Ezekiel 19:6   (Read all of Ezekiel 19)

He prowled among the lions, for he was now a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he became a man-eater.

Ezekiel 20:9   (Read all of Ezekiel 20)

But for the sake of my name, I brought them out of Egypt. I did it to keep my name from being profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they lived and in whose sight I had revealed myself to the Israelites.