Ezekiel On The Turn Around Of Jerusalem And The Jews

Learn from the Holiest place on earth – Jerusalem. With G-d’s chosen people – the Jews.

But even the inhabitants of Jerusalem be wicked, the place will remain holy.

“Jerusalem And The Jews”

“Eternal Covenant”

Say: Thus said the Lord Hashem/Elohim to Jerusalem: Your dwelling place and your birthplace are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
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Then I passed you and saw you wallowing in your blood, and I said to you, ‘In your blood you shall live’; I said to you, ‘In your blood you shall live.’
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I made you as numerous as the plants of the field; you increased and grew, and you came to have great charm, breasts developed and you hair sprouting, but you were naked and bare.
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I passed by you and saw you, and behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread the hems of My garment over you and covered your nakedness; and I took an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you — the word of the Lord Hashem/Elohim — and you became Mine.
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Your fame went forth among the nations for your beauty, for it was perfect, through My splendor which I placed upon you — the word of the Lord Hashem/Elohim.
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But you trusted in your beauty, and you became licentious because of your fame; you poured forth your harlotries upon every passerby, to be his.
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Then you took your beautiful objects, from My gold and My silver that I gave you, and made for yourself male images and were licentious with them;
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My bread that I gave you — I had fed you fine flour, oil and honey — you placed before them for a satisfying aroma, and so it was — the word of Hashem/Elohim.
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Then you took your sons and your daughters whom you begot for Me, and these you slaughtered for them to devour! Was your harlotry so trivial
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that you slew My children and gave them away by passing them over before [your idols]?
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How degenerate is your heart — the word of the Lord Hashem/Elohim — when you do all these things, the deed of an aggressive, adulterous woman;
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O adulterous wife, who takes strangers in place of her husband!
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As I live — the word of the Lord Hashem/Elohim — [I swear that] Sodom, your sister — she and her daughters — have not done as you and your daughters did.
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But I will remember My covenant [made] with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.
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Then I will establish My covenant with you, and you will know that I am Hashem.
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in order that you remember and be ashamed, and so that you no longer have an excuse because of your humiliation, when I forgive you for all that you have done — the word of the Lord Hashem/Elohim.”
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1 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 “Son of man, let Jerusalem know its abominations.
3 And you shall say; So said the Lord God to Jerusalem; Your dwelling place and your birth place are from the land of the Canaanites; your father was the Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.
4 And as for your birth, on the day you were born, your navel was not cut, neither were you washed with water for cleansing, nor were you salted, nor swaddled at all.
5 No eye pitied you [enough] to do for you any of those, to have mercy on you, and you were cast on the open field in the loathsomeness of your body on the day you were born.
6 And I passed by you and saw you downtrodden with your blood, and I said to you, ‘With your blood, live,’ and I said to you, ‘With your blood, live.’
7 Myriads, like the plants of the field I have made you, and you have increased and grown, and you have come with perfect beauty, breasts fashioned and your hair grown, but you were naked and bare.
8 And I passed by you and saw you, and behold your time was the time of love, and I spread My skirt over you, and I covered your nakedness, and I swore to you and came into a covenant with you, says the Lord, and you were Mine.
9 And I washed you with water, and I rinsed your blood off you, and I anointed you with oil.
10 And I clothed you with embroidered garments, and I shod you with [the skin of the] badger, and I girded you with fine linen, and I covered you with silk.
11 And I adorned you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands and a necklace on your neck.
12 And I put a nose ring on your nose and earrings on your ears, and a crown of glory on your head.
13 And you adorned yourself with gold and silver, and your raiment was fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth; fine flour, honey, and oil you ate, and you became exceedingly beautiful and you became fit for the throne.
14 Then your name went out among the nations for your beauty, for it is all-inclusive, with My majesty that I placed upon you, says the Lord God.
15 And you relied on your beauty, and you went astray because of your fame, and you poured out your harlotries on every passerby; to him it would be.
16 And you took of your garments and made for yourself mounds of colored garments, and you played the harlot upon them; this should not have come, nor should it be.
17 And you took the vessels of your glory-of My gold and of My silver, which I gave to you- and you made for yourself male images and you fornicated with them.
18 And you took your embroidered garments and covered them.
19 And My bread that I gave you, fine flour, oil, and honey I gave you to eat, and you placed it before them for a pleasant odor. So it was, says the Lord God.
20 Then you took your sons and your daughters that you bore for Me, and you slaughtered them for them to eat. Were your harlotries a trivial matter,
21 That you slaughtered My children and gave them over by passing them over to them?
22 And with all your abominations and your harlotries, you did not remember the days of your youth; when you were naked and bare, and you were downtrodden in your blood.
23 What will be after all your evil? Woe, woe is to you, says the Lord God.
24 You built yourself an eminent place, and you made yourself a lofty place in every square.
25 At the head of every road you built your lofty place, and you made your beauty an abomination; you spread your legs to every passerby, and you increased your harlotries.
26 You played the harlot with the sons of Egypt, your neighbors great of flesh, and you increased your harlotry to provoke Me.
27 Now behold, I stretched out My hand over you, and I diminished your ration, and I delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were embarrassed by your lewd way.
28 And you played the harlot with the people of Assyria because you were not sated, and you played the harlot with them, but still you were not sated.
29 And you increased your harlotry with the land of Canaan, with the Chaldeans, and even with this you were not sated.
30 How degenerate is your heart! says the Lord God, when you do all these things-the deed of a harlot dominated [by passion].
31 When you build your eminent place at the head of every road and you make your lofty place in every square, but you are not like a harlot to boast of a hire.
32 [You are] the adulterous wife, who, under her husband, takes strangers.
33 To all harlots they give gifts, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, and you bribed them to come to you from around because of your harlotries.
34 With you was the opposite of [other] women because of your harlotries, and after you, there was no such harlotry, and when you gave hire and it was not given to you, you were the opposite.
35 Therefore, [you] harlot, listen to the word of the Lord.
36 So said the Lord God: Because your bottom was poured out and your nakedness was uncovered because of your harlotries with your lovers, and because of all your abominable idols, and according to the blood of your sons, which you gave them.
37 Therefore, behold I gather all your lovers with whom you mingled, and all whom you loved with all whom you hated, and I shall gather them against you from around and I shall expose your nakedness to them, and they will see all your nakedness.
38 And I shall judge you [with] the judgments of adulteresses and murderesses, and I shall deliver you [to those who shed] blood with fury and zeal.
39 And I shall deliver you into their hands, and they will demolish your eminent place, and they will break down your lofty places and strip you of your clothing and take the vessels of your glory and leave you naked and bare.
40 And they will raise up a mob against you and pelt you with stones, and they will pierce you with their swords.
41 And they will burn your houses with fire and will inflict judgments upon you before the eyes of many women, and I shall stop you from [being] a harlot, neither will you any longer give hire.
42 And I shall relieve My fury in you, and My jealousy will depart from you, and I shall be quiet and be angry no longer.
43 Because you did not remember the days of your youth, and you angered Me with all these, I, too, behold I have laid your way on [your] head, says the Lord God, yet you did not make a plan concerning all your abominations.
44 Behold, whoever uses proverb will use this proverb about you, saying, “Like mother, like daughter.”
45 You are your mother’s daughter, spewing forth her husband and her children, and you are your sister’s sister, who spewed forth their husbands and their children; your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
46 And your big sister, Samaria she and her daughters who lives at your left, and your sister who was smaller than you, who lives at your right, namely Sodom and her daughters.
47 If only you had gone in their ways and you had done as their abominations, it would have been so very little, but you dealt more corruptly than they in all your ways.
48 As I live, says the Lord God, Sodom your sister has not done as you and your daughters have done.
49 Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom your sister: pride, abundance of bread, and careless ease were hers and her daughters’, and she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
50 And they became haughty and did abomination before Me, and I removed them when I saw.
51 And Samaria did not sin like half of your sins, but you increased your abominations more than they, and you vindicated your sisters with all your abominations that you did.
52 You too, bear your disgrace that you judged your sister; with your sins that you have committed abomination more than they, they will be more righteous than you; and you too, be ashamed and bear your disgrace when you vindicate your sister!
53 And I shall return their captivity and the captivity of Sodom and her daughters and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters and the captivity of your captives in their midst.
54 In order that you bear your disgrace and that you be humiliated because of all that you did, in that you consoled them.
55 And your sisters: 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.
56 Now, was not Sodom your sister a report in your mouth on the day of your pride?
57 Before your evil was revealed, like at the time of the taunt by the daughters of Aram and all those around her, the daughters of the Philistines, who disgraced you from around.
58 Your lewdness and your abominations-you bore them, says the Lord.
59 For so said the Lord God: I have done with you as you did, that you despised an oath to violate a covenant.
60 But I shall remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I shall establish for you an everlasting covenant.
61 And you will remember your ways, and you will be humiliated when you take your sisters, [joining] those greater than you to those smaller than you, and I shall give them to you for daughters, but not from your covenant.
62 And I shall establish My covenant with you, and you will know that I am the Lord.
63 In order that you remember and be ashamed, and you will no longer have an excuse by reason of your humiliation, when I forgive you for all that you have done,” says the Lord God.