1. Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2. Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
3. and say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: Your birth and your nativity are from the land of Canaan. Your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.
4. As for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water to cleanse you. You were not rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.
5. No eye pitied you to do any of these to you, to have compassion on you. But you were cast out in the open field, to the loathing of your person, in the day that you were born.
6. When I passed by you and saw you polluted in your own blood, I said to you when you were in your blood, “Live!” Indeed, I said to you when you were in your blood, “Live!”
7. I have caused you to multiply as the bud of the field, and you have increased and become tall, and you have reached the age of fine ornaments. Your breasts were fashioned and your hair had grown, yet you were naked and bare.
8. Now when I passed by you and looked upon you, you were old enough for love. So I spread My garment over you and covered your nakedness. Indeed, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became Mine.
9. Then I washed you with water. Indeed, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.
10. I clothed you also with embroidered work, and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet, and girded you about with fine linen, and covered you with silk.
11. I decked you also with ornaments, and put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck.
12. I put a jewel on your forehead, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
13. Thus you were decked with gold and silver. And your raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work. You ate fine flour, and honey, and oil. And you were exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.
14. Then your renown went out among the nations for your beauty. For it was perfect through My comeliness which I had put upon you, says the Lord God.
15. But you trusted in your own beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and poured out your fornications on every willing passerby.
16. Of your garments you took and decked your high places with various colors and played the harlot on them, which should never come about or happen.
17. You have also taken your fair jewels made of My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men that you might commit harlotry with them.
18. Then you took your embroidered garments and covered them. And you have set My oil and My incense before them.