Ezekiel 16:15 Cross References - Rotherham

¹⁵ Then didst thou trust in thy beauty, And become unchaste, because of thy fame,––And didst pour out thine unchastity upon every passer–by, his, it was!

⁶ So they rose up early, on the morrow, and offered ascending–sacrifices, and brought near peace–offerings,––and the people sat down, to eat and to drink, and then rose up––to make sport!
⁷ Then spake Yahweh unto Moses–Go, get thee down, for thy people whom thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. ⁸ They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them, they have made for themselves––a molten calf,––and have bowed themselves down thereto, and have sacrificed thereto, and have said, These, are thy gods, O Israel, who have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. ⁹ So then Yahweh said unto Moses,––I have looked on this people, and lo! a stiff–necked people, it is. ¹⁰ Now, therefore, let me alone, that mine anger may kindle upon them, and that I may consume them, and may make of thee, a great nation. ¹¹ And Moses besought the face of Yahweh his God,––and said––Wherefore, O Yahweh, should thine anger kindle upon thy people, whom thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt, with great might, and with a firm hand? ¹² Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, saying––For mischief, hath he taken them forth, to slay them among the mountains, and to make an end of them from off the face of the ground? Turn thou from the kindling of thine anger, and be grieved over the calamity to thy people. ¹³ Have remembrance of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thyself, and didst speak unto them saying, I will multiply your seed, as the stars of the heavens,––and, all this land of which I have spoken, will I give to your seed, and they shall inherit it to times age–abiding. ¹⁴ So then Yahweh was grieved,––over the calamity,––which he had spoken of inflicting on his people.
¹⁵ And Moses turned, and went down out of the mount, with the two tables of testimony in his hand,––tables written upon, on both sides of them, on this and on that, were they written. ¹⁶ Now as for, the tables, the work of God, they were,––and, as for the writing, the writing of God, it was, graven upon the tables. ¹⁷ And Joshua heard the noise of the people, as they shouted,––so he said unto Moses––The noise of war, in the camp! ¹⁸ But he said––Not the noise of the cry of heroism, nor yet the noise of the cry of defeat,––the noise of alternate song, do, I, hear. ¹⁹ And it came to pass, when he drew near unto the camp, and saw the calf, and the dancings, that the anger of Moses kindled, and he cast out of his hands the tables, and brake them in pieces, at the foot of the mountain. ²⁰ Then took he the calf which they had made, and burned it in the fire, and ground it till it became powder,––and strewed it on the face of the waters, and made the sons of Israel drink.
²¹ And Moses said unto Aaron, What had this people done to thee,––that thou shouldst have brought upon them a great sin? ²² And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord kindle,––thou thyself, knowest the people, that, ready for mischief, they are. ²³ So they said to me––Make for us gods, who shall go before us,––for, as for this, Moses––the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what hath befallen him. ²⁴ And I said to them––Whosoever hath gold, let them break it off, So they gave it to me,––and I cast it into the fire, and there came out––this calf. ²⁵ And Moses saw the people, that, unbridled, they were,––for Aaron had given them the rein, for a whispering, among their enemies. ²⁶ So Moses took his stand in the gate of the camp, and said––Who is for Yahweh? . . . To me! Then gathered unto him all the sons of Levi. ²⁷ And he said to them––Thus, saith Yahweh, God of Israel, Put ye every man his sword upon his thigh,––pass through and return, from gate to gate, in the camp, and slay ye every man his brother, and every man his friend, and every man his neighbour. ²⁸ So the sons of Levi did, according to the word of Moses,––and there fell, from among the people, on that day, about three thousand men. ²⁹ And Moses said––Install yourselves, today, unto Yahweh, yea every man for his son, and for his brother,––so will he bestow upon you, today, a blessing.
³⁰ And it came to pass, on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye, have sinned a great sin,––Now, therefore, I must go up unto Yahweh, Peradventure, I may make a propitiatory–covering for your sin. ³¹ So Moses returned unto Yahweh, and said,––Oh now! this people hath sinned a great sin, and they have made for themselves––gods of gold. ³² Now, therefore, if thou wilt forgive their sin, . . . but, if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book, which thou hast written. ³³ And Yahweh said unto Moses,––Him who hath sinned against me, must I blot out of my book. ³⁴ Now, therefore, go lead the people to the place of which I spake to thee, lo! my messenger, shall go before thee,––But, in the day when I do visit, then will I visit upon them, their sin. ³⁵ And Yahweh plagued the people,––for what they had done with the calf, which Aaron made.

¹ And Israel remained among the acacias,––and the people began to go away unchastely unto the daughters of Moab; ² who invited the people unto the sacrifices of their gods,––so the people did eat, and did bow themselves down unto their gods.

¹⁵ Then Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou wast fat, Thou wast thick, Thou wast gorged,––So he forsook the GOD who made him, And treated as foolish his Rock of salvation.

¹² and forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were round about them, and bowed themselves down unto them,––and angered Yahweh.

⁶ and took their daughters to be their wives, their own daughters moreover, gave they unto their sons, and they served their gods.

⁶ And the sons of Israel again did the thing that was wicked in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals and the Ashtoreths, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the sons of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines,––and forsook Yahweh, and served him not.

⁵ And Solomon went after Ashtoreth, goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.

²⁸ Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold,––and said unto them––It is, too much for you, to go up to Jerusalem, Lo! thy gods, O Israel, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt;

⁷ And thus it came to pass that Israel sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt,––yea they did reverence to other gods;

³ He again built the high places, which Hezekiah his father had destroyed,––and reared altars to Baal, and made a Sacred Stem, as did Ahab, king of Israel, and bowed down to all the army of the heavens, and served them.

³⁵ But had fellowship with the nations, and learned their doings;

²¹ How, hath she become unchaste!––The city that was Faithful,––Full of justice, Righteousness lodged in her, But, now, murderers!

¹ Hear ye this––O house of Jacob, Ye who call yourselves by the name of Israel, Yea, from the waters of Judah, came they forth,––Who swear by the name of Yahweh, And, by the God of Israel, call to remembrance––Not in truth, nor in righteousness;

⁸ And, behind the door and the post, hast thou set thy symbol, For, with another than me, hast thou uncovered thyself and gone up––Hast widened thy couch, And hast solemnised for thyself a covenant from them, Thou hast loved their couch, a sign, hast thou seen;

²⁰ For, in age–past time, I brake thy yoke, I tare off thy fetters, And thou saidst, I will not transgress,––Nevertheless, on every high hill, and under every green tree, wast thou lying down as an unchaste woman.

¹ He hath said, If a man send away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, will he return unto her, again? would not that land be, utterly defiled? And, thou, hast been unchaste with many neighbours, and yet [thinkest] to return unto me! Declareth Yahweh.

⁴ Do not, on your part, trust in false, words, saying,––The temple of Yahweh, The temple of Yahweh, The temple of Yahweh, they are!

²⁵ At the head of every road, didst thou build thy height, And bring thy beauty into disgust, And open thy feet to every passer–by, So didst thou make thine unchaste ways to abound.

³⁶ Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh,––Because thy money, was poured out, and thy shame, was uncovered, in thine unchastity, unto thy lovers,––and unto all thine abominable manufactured gods, even as the blood of thy children, whom thou didst deliver up unto them, ³⁷ Therefore, behold me! gathering together all thy lovers, unto whom thou didst make thyself pleasant, Even all whom thou lovedst, With all whom thou hatedst,––Yea I will gather them, together unto thee from every side, And will uncover thy shame unto them, And they shall see all thy shame.

⁸ But they rebelled against me, And were not willing to hearken unto me, Every man, the abominations of their eyes, they cast not away, And, the manufactured gods of Egypt, forsook they not; Therefore spake I of pouring out mine indignation upon them, to bring mine anger to an end against them, in the midst of the land of Egypt.

³ And they became unchaste in Egypt, In their youth, became they unchaste, There, were handled their breasts, And, there, were pressed their virgin bosoms.

⁸ And, her unchaste doings from the time she was in Egypt, had she not forsaken, For, with her, had they lain in her youth, Yea, they, had pressed her virgin bosoms,––and had poured out their unchastity upon her.

¹¹ And, though her sister Oholibah saw, Yet became she more corrupt in her lust than the other,––And, her unchaste doings, exceeded the unchaste doings of her sister. ¹² After the sons of Assyria, she lusted, Governors and deputies so warlike. Clothed in splendid array, Horsemen, riding on horses,––Attractive young men, all, of them. ¹³ So I saw, that she defiled herself,––One way, had they both. ¹⁴ Yet did she add, unto her unchaste doings,––when she saw men portrayed upon the wall, likenesses of Chaldeans, Portrayed with vermilion: ¹⁵ Girded with waistcloths upon their loins, With overhanging high turbans upon their heads, In appearance, knights, all, of them,––The likeness of the sons of Babylon of Chaldea, the land of their birth. ¹⁶ Then lusted she after them, as soon as her eyes beheld them,––And she sent messengers unto them, to Chaldea. ¹⁷ Then, came in unto her, the sons of Babylon, into the bed of endearments, and defiled her with their unchaste doings,––And she, defiled herself with them, And then was her soul torn from them. ¹⁸ Thus disclosed she her unchaste desires, And disclosed, her shame,––So my soul was torn from her, Just as my soul had been torn from her sister. ¹⁹ Yea she multiplied her unchaste desires,––calling to mind the days of her youth, when she was unchaste in the land of Egypt; ²⁰ So she lusted after their courtiers,––Whose flesh was, the flesh of asses, and, Whose issue was, the issue of horses. ²¹ Yea thou didst look about for the lewdness of thy youth,––When were pressed, by the Egyptians, thy bosoms, When they handled thy youthful breasts.

³ And thou shalt say unto Tyre, O thou that dwellest by the entrances of the sea, Thou merchant of the peoples, unto many shores,––Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, O Tyre, thou, saidst, I, am the perfection of beauty!

¹³ When I say of the righteous man, He shall, surely live, but, he, hath trusted in his righteousness and committed perversity, None of his righteous deeds, shall be mentioned, But, by his perversity which he hath committed––thereby, shall he die.

² The beginning of the word of Yahweh with Hosea, was,––that Yahweh said unto Hosea, Go take thee a woman of unchastity, and the children of unchastity, for, unchastely indeed, hath the land been going away from following Yahweh.

¹⁰ And they shall eat, and not be satisfied, they have encouraged unchastity, yet have not been making increase,––for unto, Yahweh, have they left off giving heed:––

¹¹ Her heads, for a bribe, pronounce sentence, and, her priests, for a price, give direction, and, her prophets, for silver, divine,––yet, on Yahweh, they lean, saying, Is not, Yahweh, in our midst? there shall not come upon us, calamity.

¹¹ In that day, wilt thou not turn pale for all thy deeds, wherein thou hast transgressed against me? For, then, will I take away out of thy midst thy proudly exulting ones, and thou shalt not again be haughty any more in my holy mountain:

⁹ and think not to be saying within yourselves,––As our father, we have, Abraham; for, I say unto you, that God is able, out of these stones, to raise up children unto Abraham.

⁵ and, upon her forehead, a name written, a secret: Babylon the great, the Mother of the Harlots and of the Abominations of the earth.