Ezekiel 16:5

Easy To Read Version

\{Jerusalem, you were all alone.\} No one felt sorry for you or took care of you. \{Jerusalem,\} on the day you were born, your parents threw you out in the field. You were still covered with the blood and afterbirth.

Cross References

Genesis 21:10

Sarah said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman and her son. Send them away! When we die, our son Isaac will get everything we have. I don’t want that slave woman’s son sharing those things with my son Isaac!”

Exodus 1:22

So Pharaoh [5] gave this command to his own people: “Let all the girl babies live. But every time a {Hebrew} boy baby is born, you must throw him into the Nile River.”

Isaiah 49:15

\{But I say\},\par “Can a woman forget her baby? No!\par Can a woman forget the child\par that came from her body?\par No! A woman can’t forget her children.\par And I (the Lord) can’t forget you.\par

Jeremiah 22:19

The people of Jerusalem will bury Jehoiakim\par like they were burying a donkey.\par They will just drag his body away\par and throw it outside the gates of Jerusalem.\par

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are worn out with tears!\par My insides are upset!\par My heart feels like it has been poured\par on the ground!\par I feel this way because of the destruction\par of my people.\par Children and babies are fainting.\par They are fainting in the public squares\par of the city.\par

Lamentations 2:19

Get up! Cry out in the night!\par Cry out at the beginning of each of the parts of the night!\par Pour out your heart as if it were water!\par Pour out your heart before the Lord!\par Lift up your hands in prayer to the Lord.\par Ask him to let your children live.\par Ask him to let your children live that are fainting with starvation.\par They are fainting with starvation\par in all the streets of the city.\par

Lamentations 4:10

At that time, even very nice women\par cooked their own children.\par Those children became food\par for their mothers.\par This happened when my people\par were destroyed.\par

Lamentations 4:3

Even a wild dog feeds her babies.\par Even the jackal lets her pups suck\par at her breast.\par But the daughter of my people {\cf2\super [27]} is cruel.\par She is like the ostrich\par that lives in the desert.\par

Ezekiel 16:6

“‘Then I (God) passed by. I saw you lying there, kicking in the blood. You were covered with blood but I said, “Please live!” Yes, you were covered with blood but I said, “Please live!”

Ezekiel 2:6

“Son of man, {\cf2\super [14]} don’t be afraid of those people. Don’t be afraid of the things they say. It is true, they will turn against you and try to hurt you. They will be like thorns. You will think you are living with scorpions. {\cf2\super [15]} But don’t be afraid of the things they say. They are a rebellious people. But don’t be afraid of them.

Numbers 19:16

If anyone touches a dead body, then that person will be unclean for seven days. This is true if the dead body is out in the field or if the person was killed in war. Also, if anyone touches the bones from a dead person then that person is unclean.

Deuteronomy 32:10

“The Lord found Jacob (Israel) in a desert land, an empty, windy land. The Lord surrounded Jacob to watch over him. He protected him, like the pupil of his eye.