Ezekiel 16:4-6

New Catholic Bible

⁴ As for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut. You were neither bathed in water, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling clothes. ⁵ No one took pity on you or did any of these deeds out of compassion for you. Rather, you were thrown out into an open field, for you were regarded as something loathsome on the day you were born.

⁶ Then I passed by and saw you kicking helplessly in your blood. I said to you as you lay there in your blood, “Live,