Bible Reading for September 3

Bible Reading for September 3

Ezekiel Chapter 16

1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy 
nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy 
mother an Hittite.

4 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not 
cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not 
salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

5 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion 
upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of 
thy person, in the day that thou wast born.

6 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I 
said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee 
when thou wast in thy blood, Live.

7 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast 
increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy 
breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked 
and bare.

8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was 
the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy 
nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with 
thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.

9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood 
from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.

10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' 
skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.

11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy 
hands, and a chain on thy neck.

12 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a 
beautiful crown upon thine head.

13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of 
fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and 
honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst 
prosper into a kingdom.

14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it 
was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the 
Lord GOD.

15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot 
because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one 
that passed by; his it was.

16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places 
with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things 
shall not come, neither shall it be so.

17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, 
which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst 
commit whoredom with them,

18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast 
set mine oil and mine incense before them.

19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, 
wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet 
savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.

20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast 
borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. 
Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,

21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to 
pass through the fire for them?

22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not 
remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and 
wast polluted in thy blood.

23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! 
saith the Lord GOD;)

24 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made 
thee an high place in every street.

25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast 
made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one 
that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.

26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy 
neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke 
me to anger.

27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have 
diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them 
that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of 
thy lewd way.

28 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast 
unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest 
not be satisfied.

29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan 
unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.

30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all 
these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;

31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, 
and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an 
harlot, in that thou scornest hire;

32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers 
instead of her husband!

33 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy 
lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for 
thy whoredom.

34 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, 
whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest 
a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.

35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:

36 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and 
thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with 
all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, 
which thou didst give unto them;

37 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast 
taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that 
thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and 
will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

38 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are 
judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

39 And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down 
thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall 
strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and 
leave thee naked and bare.

40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone 
thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

41 And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments 
upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease 
from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.

42 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall 
depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast 
fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense 
thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit 
this lewdness above all thine abominations.

44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against 
thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

45 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her 
children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their 
husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father 
an Amorite.

46 And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell 
at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right 
hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

47 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their 
abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast 
corrupted more than they in all thy ways.

48 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she 
nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.

49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of 
bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, 
neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore 
I took them away as I saw good.

51 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast 
multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy 
sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.

52 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for 
thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are 
more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy 
shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

53 When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and 
her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will 
I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:

54 That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in 
all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.

55 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their 
former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their 
former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former 
estate.

56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy 
pride,

57 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach 
of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the 
daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.

58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.

59 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast 
done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy 
youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.

61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt 
receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them 
unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.

62 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that 
I am the LORD:

63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy 
mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for 
all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel Chapter 17

1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of 
Israel;

3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, 
longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto 
Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:

4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land 
of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.

5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful 
field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.

6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose 
branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it 
became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: 
and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her 
branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her 
plantation.

8 It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring 
forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly 
vine.

9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull 
up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it 
shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power 
or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.

10 Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly 
wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows 
where it grew.

11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? 
tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath 
taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him 
to Babylon;

13 And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and 
hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:

14 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but 
that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.

15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, 
that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall 
he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be 
delivered?

16 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king 
dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant 
he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for 
him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off 
many persons:

18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he 
had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.

19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath that 
he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I 
recompense upon his own head.

20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, 
and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his 
trespass that he hath trespassed against me.

21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and 
they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know 
that I the LORD have spoken it.

22 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of 
the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his 
young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and 
eminent:

23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall 
bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it 
shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches 
thereof shall they dwell.

24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have 
brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the 
green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have 
spoken and have done it.

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