Ezekiel 16:18 - Easy To Read Version Then you took the beautiful cloth and made clothes for those statues. You took the perfume and incense I gave you, and you put it in front of those idols. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And you took your embroidered garments and covered them and set My oil and My incense before them. American Standard Version (1901) and thou tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them, and didst set mine oil and mine incense before them. Common English Bible You took your fine garments and clothed them. You set my oil and incense before them. Catholic Public Domain Version And you used your multicolored vestments to cover these things. And you placed my oil and my incense before them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And thou tookest thy garments of divers colours and coveredst them: and settest my oil and my sweet incense before them. |
And I will announce my judgment\par against my people.\par I will do this because they are bad people\par and they have turned against me.\par My people left me.\par They offered sacrifices to other gods.\par They worshiped idols that they had made\par with their own hands.\par
\{I would punish that country\} even if Noah, Danel, and Job {\cf2\super [114]} lived there. Those men could save their own lives by their goodness, \{but they could not save the whole country\}.” The Lord my Master said these things.
{\cf2\super [120]} I gave you a nice dress and soft leather shoes. I gave you a linen headband and a silk scarf.
Then you took your beautiful jewelry that I gave you. And you used that gold and silver to make statues of men. And you had sex with them too!
I gave you bread, honey, and oil. But you gave that food to your idols. You offered them as a sweet smell to please your false gods. You acted like a prostitute with those false gods!” The Lord my Master said these things.
You sat on a fine bed with a table set before it. You put my incense {\cf2\super [195]} and my oil {\cf2\super [196]} on this table.
Aram traded with you because you had so many good things. They traded emeralds, purple cloth, fine needlework, fine linen, coral {\cf2\super [226]} and rubies for the things you sold.
She will run after her lovers, but she will not be able to catch up with them. She will look for her lovers, but she will not be able to find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my first husband (God). Life was better for me when I was with him. Life was better then than it is now.’
Those false gods ate the fat of your sacrifices. And they drank the wine of your offerings. So let those gods get up and help you! Let them protect you!