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15:4. Behold it is cast into the fire for fuel: the fire hath consumed
both ends thereof, and the midst thereof is reduced to ashes: shall it
be useful for any work?
15:5. Even when it was whole it was not fit for work: how much less,
when the fire hath devoured and consumed it, shall any work be made of
it?
15:6. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: As the vine tree among the
trees of the forests which I have given to the fire to be consumed, so
will I deliver up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15:7. And I will set my face against them: they shall go out from fire,
and fire shall consume them: and you shall know that I am the Lord, when
I shall have set my face against them.
15:8. And I shall have made their land a wilderness, and desolate,
because they have been transgressors, saith the Lord God.
Ezechiel Chapter 16
Under the figure of an unfaithful wife, God upbraids Jerusalem with her
ingratitude and manifold disloyalties: but promiseth mercy by a new
covenant.
16:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
16:2. Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations.
Make known to Jerusalem... That is, by letters, for the prophet was then
in Babylon.
16:3. And thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God to Jerusalem: Thy
root, and thy nativity is of the land of Chanaan, thy father was an
Amorrhite, and thy mother a Cethite.
16:4. And when thou wast born, in the day of thy nativity thy navel was
not cut, neither wast thou washed with water for thy health, nor salted
with salt, nor swaddled with clouts.
16:5. No eye had pity on thee to do any of these things for thee, out of
compassion to thee: but thou wast cast out upon the face of the earth in
the abjection of thy soul, in the day that thou wast born.
16:6. And passing by thee, I saw that thou wast trodden under foot in
thy own blood: and I said to thee when thou wast in thy blood: Live: I
have said to thee: Live in thy blood.
16:7. I caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field: and thou didst
increase and grow great, and advancedst, and camest to woman's ornament:
thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair grew: and thou was naked, and
full of confusion.
16:8. And I passed by thee, and saw thee: and behold thy time was the
time of lovers: and I spread my garment over thee, and covered thy
ignominy and I swore to thee, and I entered into a covenant with thee,
saith the Lord God: and thou becamest mine.
16:9. And I washed thee with water, and cleansed away thy blood from
thee: and I anointed thee with oil.
16:10. And I clothed thee with embroidery, and shod thee with violet
coloured shoes: and I girded thee about with fine linen, and clothed
thee with fine garments.
16:11. I decked thee also with ornaments, and put bracelets on thy
hands, and a chain about thy neck.
I decked thee also with ornaments, etc... That is, with spiritual
benefits, giving you a law with sacrifices, sacraments, and other holy
rites.
16:12. And I put a jewel upon thy forehead and earrings in thy ears, and
a beautiful crown upon thy head.
16:13. And thou wast adorned with gold, and silver, and wast clothed
with fine linen, and embroidered work, and many colours: thou didst eat
fine flour, and honey, and oil, and wast made exceeding beautiful: and
wast advanced to be a queen.
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