“‘“Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter,
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Ezekiel 16:20 in context
Ezekiel 16:17–23
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You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them.
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You took your embroidered garments, covered them, and set my oil and my incense before them.
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My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you even set it before them for a pleasant aroma; and so it was,” says the Lord GOD.
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“‘“Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter,
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that you have slain my children and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them?
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In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were wallowing in your blood.
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“‘“It has happened after all your wickedness—woe, woe to you!” says the Lord GOD—
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