Ezekiel 16:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

No eye hath had pity on thee, to do to thee any of these, To have compassion on thee, And thou art cast on the face of the field, With loathing of thy person. In the day thou hast been born -- thou!

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 21:10 : 10 and she saith to Abraham, `Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid hath no possession with my son -- with Isaac.'
  • Exod 1:22 : 22 and Pharaoh layeth a charge on all his people, saying, `Every son who is born -- into the River ye do cast him, and every daughter ye do keep alive.'
  • Num 19:16 : 16 `And every one who cometh, on the face of the field, against the pierced of a sword, or against the dead, or against a bone of man, or against a grave, is unclean seven days;
  • Deut 32:10 : 10 He findeth him in a land -- a desert, And in a void -- a howling wilderness, He turneth him round -- He causeth him to understand -- He keepeth him as the apple of His eye.
  • Isa 49:15 : 15 Forget doth a woman her suckling, The loved one -- the son of her womb? Yea, these forget -- but I -- I forget not thee.
  • Jer 9:21-22 : 21 For death hath come up into our windows, It hath come into our palaces, To cut off the suckling from without, Young men from the broad places. 22 Speak thus -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And fallen hath the carcase of man, As dung on the face of the field, And as a handful after the reaper, And there is none gathering.
  • Jer 22:19 : 19 The burial of an ass -- he is buried, Dragged and cast out thence to the gates of Jerusalem.
  • Lam 2:11 : 11 Consumed by tears have been my eyes, Troubled have been my bowels, Poured out to the earth hath been my liver, For the breach of the daughter of my people; In infant and suckling being feeble, In the broad places of the city,
  • Lam 2:19 : 19 Arise, cry aloud in the night, At the beginning of the watches. Pour out as water thy heart, Over against the face of the Lord, Lift up unto Him thy hands, for the soul of thine infants, Who are feeble with hunger at the head of all out-places.
  • Lam 4:3 : 3 Even dragons have drawn out the breast, They have suckled their young ones, The daughter of my people is become cruel, Like the ostriches in a wilderness.
  • Lam 4:10 : 10 The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children, They have been for food to them, In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • Ezek 2:6 : 6 `And thou, son of man, thou art not afraid of them, yea, of their words thou art not afraid, for briers and thorns are with thee, and near scorpions thou art dwelling, of their words thou art not afraid, and of their faces thou art not affrighted, for they `are' a rebellious house,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 16:3-4
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    3Thus said the Lord Jehovah to Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity `Are' of the land of the Canaanite, Thy father the Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite.

    4As to thy nativity, in the day thou wast born, Thou -- thy navel hath not been cut, And in water thou wast not washed for ease, And thou hast not been salted at all, And thou hast not been swaddled at all.

  • Ezek 16:6-7
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    6And I do pass over by thee, And I see thee trodden down in thy blood, And I say to thee in thy blood, Live, And I say to thee in thy blood, Live.

    7A myriad -- as the shoot of the field I have made thee, And thou art multiplied, and art great, And comest in with an excellent adornment, Breasts have been formed, and thy hair hath grown -- And thou, naked and bare!

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    22And with all thine abominations and thy whoredoms, Thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, When thou wast naked and bare, Trodden down in thy blood thou wast!

    23And it cometh to pass, after all thy wickedness, (Wo, wo, to thee -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah),

  • Isa 51:18-19
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    18There is not a leader to her Out of all the sons she hath borne, And there is none laying hold on her hand Out of all the sons she hath nourished.

    19These two are meeting thee, who is moved for thee? Spoiling and destruction -- Famine and sword, who -- I comfort thee?

  • 26And I have cast thee, And thy mother who bore thee, unto another country, Where ye were not born, and there do ye die.

  • 8Yea, thou hast not heard, Yea, thou hast not known, Yea, from that time not opened hath thine ear, For I have known thou dealest treacherously, And `Transgressor from the belly,' One is crying to thee.

  • Jer 30:12-15
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    12For thus said Jehovah: Incurable is thy breach, grievous thy stroke,

    13There is none judging thy cause to bind up, Healing medicines there are none for thee.

    14all loving thee have forgotten thee, Thee they do not seek, For with the stroke of an enemy I smote thee, The chastisement of a fierce one, Because of the abundance of thy iniquity, Mighty have been thy sins!

    15What! -- thou criest concerning thy breach! Incurable `is' thy pain, Because of the abundance of thy iniquity, Mighty have been thy sins! I have done these to thee.

  • 18And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.

  • Isa 14:19-20
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    19And -- thou hast been cast out of thy grave, As an abominable branch, raiment of the slain, Thrust through ones of the sword, Going down unto the sons of the pit, As a carcase trodden down.

    20Thou art not united with them in burial, For thy land thou hast destroyed, Thy people thou hast slain, Not named to the age is the seed of evil doers.

  • Ps 22:9-10
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    9For thou `art' He bringing me forth from the womb, Causing me to trust, On the breasts of my mother.

    10On Thee I have been cast from the womb, From the belly of my mother Thou `art' my God.

  • 16(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants -- they have not seen light.)

  • 5For who hath pity on thee, O Jerusalem? And who doth bemoan for thee? And who turneth aside to ask of thy welfare?

  • Jer 20:17-18
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    17Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me -- my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during.

    18Why `is' this? from the womb I have come out, To see labour and sorrow, Yea, consumed in shame are my days!

  • 7Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee.

  • 14Cursed `is' the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed!

  • 11In the day of thy standing over-against, In the day of strangers taking captive his force, And foreigners have entered his gates, And for Jerusalem have cast a lot, Even thou `art' as one of them!

  • 21And thou hast said in thy heart: `Who hath begotten for me -- these? And I bereaved and gloomy, A captive, and turned aside, And these -- who hath nourished? Lo, I -- I was left by myself, these -- whence `are' they?

  • Lam 2:21-22
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    21Lain on the earth `in' out-places have young and old, My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword, Thou hast slain in a day of Thine anger, Thou hast slaughtered -- Thou hast not pitied.

    22Thou dost call as `at' a day of appointment, My fears from round about, And there hath not been in the day of the anger of Jehovah, An escaped and remaining one, They whom I stretched out and nourished, My enemy hath consumed!

  • 9Now, why dost thou shout aloud? A king -- is there none in thee? Hath thy counsellor perished, That taken hold of thee hath pain as a travailing woman?

  • 3For thus said Jehovah, Of the sons and of the daughters who are born in this place, And of their mothers -- those bearing them, And of their fathers -- those begetting them in this land:

  • 16Mine unformed substance Thine eyes saw, And on Thy book all of them are written, The days they were formed -- And not one among them.

  • 15Instead of thy being forsaken and hated, And none passing through, I have made thee for an excellency age-during, A joy of generation and generation.

  • 12Ashamed hath been your mother greatly, Confounded hath she been that bare you, Lo, the hindermost of nations `is' a wilderness, A dry land, and a desert.

  • 5Those eating of dainties have been desolate in out-places, Those supported on scarlet have embraced dunghills.

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    57Before thy wickedness is revealed, As `at' the time of the reproach of the daughters of Aram, And of all her neighbours, the daughters of the Philistines, Who are despising thee round about.

    58Thy devices and thine abominations, Thou hast borne them, an affirmation of Jehovah.

  • Hos 2:3-4
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    3Lest I strip her naked. And have set her up as `in' the day of her birth, And have made her as a wilderness, And have set her as a dry land, And have put her to death with thirst.

    4And her sons I do not pity, For sons of whoredoms `are' they,

  • 6And I have cast upon thee abominations, And dishonoured thee, and made thee as a sight.

  • Job 3:10-11
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    10Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.

    11Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!

  • 5Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

  • 12`Is it' nothing to you, all ye passing by the way? Look attentively, and see, If there is any pain like my pain, That He is rolling to me? Whom Jehovah hath afflicted In the day of the fierceness of His anger.

  • 36Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of thy brass being poured forth, And thy nakedness is revealed in thy whoredoms near thy lovers, And near all the idols of thy abominations, And according to the blood of thy sons, Whom thou hast given to them;

  • 18Thy way and thy doings have done these to thee, This `is' thy vexation, for `it is' bitter, For it hath struck unto thy heart.

  • 13For Thou -- Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly.

  • 5`Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'

  • 4And no pity on thee hath Mine eye, nor do I spare, For thy ways against thee I do set, And thine abominations are in thy midst, And ye have known that I `am' Jehovah.

  • 45Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples.