Ezekiel 16:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

No eye had pity on you to do any of these things to you or to be kind to you; but you were put out into the open country, because your life was hated at the time of your birth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 21:10 : 10 So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac.
  • Exod 1:22 : 22 And Pharaoh gave orders to all his people, saying, Every son who comes to birth is to be put into the river, but every daughter may go on living.
  • Num 19:16 : 16 And anyone touching one who has been put to death with the sword in the open country, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or a man's bone, or the resting-place of a dead body, will be unclean for seven days.
  • Deut 32:10 : 10 He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.
  • Isa 49:15 : 15 Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.
  • Jer 9:21-22 : 21 For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places. 22 The bodies of men will be falling like waste on the open fields, and like grain dropped by the grain-cutter, and no one will take them up.
  • Jer 22:19 : 19 They will do to him what they do to the dead body of an ass; his body will be pulled out and placed on the earth outside the doors of Jerusalem.
  • Lam 2:11 : 11 My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.
  • Lam 2:19 : 19 Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.
  • Lam 4:3 : 3 Even the beasts of the waste land have full breasts, they give milk to their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the waste land.
  • Lam 4:10 : 10 The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • Ezek 2:6 : 6 And you, son of man, have no fear of them or of their words, even if sharp thorns are round you and you are living among scorpions: have no fear of their words and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.

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  • Ezek 16:3-4
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    3 And say, This is what the Lord has said to Jerusalem: Your start and your birth was from the land of the Canaanite; an Amorite was your father and your mother was a Hittite.

    4 As for your birth, on the day of your birth your cord was not cut and you were not washed in water to make you clean; you were not salted or folded in linen bands.

  • Ezek 16:6-7
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    6 And when I went past you and saw you stretched out in your blood, I said to you, Though you are stretched out in your blood, have life;

    7 And be increased in number like the buds of the field; and you were increased and became great, and you came to the time of love: your breasts were formed and your hair was long; but you were uncovered and without clothing.

  • Ezek 16:22-23
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    22 And in all your disgusting and false behaviour you had no memory of your early days, when you were uncovered and without clothing, stretched out in your blood.

    23 And it came about, after all your evil-doing, says the Lord,

  • Isa 51:18-19
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    18 She has no one among all her children to be her guide; not one of the sons she has taken care of takes her by the hand.

    19 These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?

  • Jer 22:26
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    26 I will send you out, and your mother who gave you birth, into another country not the land of your birth; and there death will come to you.

  • Isa 48:8
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    8 Truly you had no word of them, no knowledge of them; no news of them in the past had come to your ears; because I saw how false was your behaviour, and that your heart was turned against me from your earliest days.

  • Jer 30:12-15
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    12 For the Lord has said, Your disease may not be made well and your wound is bitter.

    13 There is no help for your wound, there is nothing to make you well.

    14 Your lovers have no more thought for you, they go after you no longer; for I have given you the wound of a hater, even cruel punishment;

    15 Why are you crying for help because of your wound? for your pain may never be taken away: because your evil-doing was so great and because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.

  • Job 10:18
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    18 Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

  • Isa 14:19-20
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    19 But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.

    20 As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.

  • Ps 22:9-10
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    9 But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.

    10 I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.

  • Job 3:16
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    16 Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

  • Jer 15:5
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    5 For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? and who will have sorrow for you? or who will go out of his way to see how you are?

  • Jer 20:17-18
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    17 Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.

    18 Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

  • Ezek 22:7
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    7 In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.

  • Jer 20:14
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    14 A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.

  • Obad 1:11
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    11 Because you were there watching when men from other lands took away his goods, and strange men came into his doors, and put the fate of Jerusalem to the decision of chance; you were like one of them.

  • Isa 49:21
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    21 Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these?

  • Lam 2:21-22
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    21 The young men and the old are stretched on the earth in the streets; my virgins and my young men have been put to the sword: you have sent death on them in the day of your wrath, causing death without pity.

    22 As in the day of a holy meeting you have made fears come round me on every side, and no one got away or was kept safe in the day of the Lord's wrath: those who were folded in my arms, whom I took care of, have been sent to their destruction by my hater.

  • Mic 4:9
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    9 Now why are you crying so loudly? is there no king in you? has destruction come on your wise helper? so that pains have taken you like the pains of a woman in childbirth:

  • Jer 16:3
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    3 For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:

  • Ps 139:16
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    16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.

  • Isa 60:15
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    15 And though you were turned away from, and hated, and had no helper, I will make you a pride for ever, a joy from generation to generation.

  • Jer 50:12
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    12 Your mother will be put to shame; she who gave you birth will be looked down on: see, she will be the last of the nations, a waste place, a dry and unwatered land.

  • Lam 4:5
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    5 Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.

  • Ezek 16:57-58
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    57 Before your shame was uncovered? Now you have become like her a word of shame to the daughters of Edom and all who are round about you, the daughters of the Philistines who put shame on you round about.

    58 The reward of your evil designs and your disgusting ways has come on you, says the Lord.

  • Hos 2:3-4
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    3 For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.

    4 And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.

  • Nah 3:6
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    6 I will make you completely disgusting and full of shame, and will put you up to be looked at by all.

  • Job 3:10-11
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    10 Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

    11 Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

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    5 Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

  • Lam 1:12
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    12 Come to me, all you who go by! Keep your eyes on me, and see if there is any pain like the pain of my wound, which the Lord has sent on me in the day of his burning wrath.

  • Ezek 16:36
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    36 This is what the Lord has said: Because your unclean behaviour was let loose and your body uncovered in your loose ways with your lovers and with your disgusting images, and for the blood of your children which you gave to them;

  • Jer 4:18
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    18 Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.

  • Ps 139:13
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    13 My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.

  • Jer 1:5
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    5 Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations.

  • Ezek 7:4
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    4 My eye will not have mercy on you, and I will have no pity: but I will send the punishment of your ways on you, and your disgusting works will be among you: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

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    45 You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.