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|Ezequiel 16:1| The word of Yahweh was addressed to me as follows,
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|Ezequiel 16:2| 'Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her loathsome practices!
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|Ezequiel 16:3| Say, "The Lord Yahweh says this: By origin and birth you belong to the land of Canaan. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
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|Ezequiel 16:4| At birth, the very day you were born, there was no one to cut your navel-string, or wash you in water to clean you, or rub you with salt, or wrap you in swaddling clothes.
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|Ezequiel 16:5| No one looked at you with pity enough to do any of these things out of sympathy for you. You were exposed in the open fields in your own dirt on the day you were born.
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|Ezequiel 16:6| "I saw you kicking on the ground in your blood as I was passing, and I said to you as you lay in your blood: Live!
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|Ezequiel 16:7| and I made you grow like the grass of the fields. You developed, you grew, you reached marriageable age. Your breasts became firm and your hair grew richly, but you were stark naked.
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|Ezequiel 16:8| Then I saw you as I was passing. Your time had come, the time for love. I spread my cloak over you and covered your nakedness; I gave you my oath, I made a covenant with you -- declares the Lord Yahweh -- and you became mine.
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|Ezequiel 16:9| I bathed you in water, I washed the blood off you, I anointed you with oil.
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|Ezequiel 16:10| I gave you embroidered dresses, fine leather shoes, a linen headband and a cloak of silk.
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