No eye looked with pity on you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you. Rather you were thrown out into the [a](A)open field, [b]for you were abhorred on the day you were born.

“When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’ I (B)made you [c]very numerous, like plants of the field. Then you grew up, became tall and reached the age for fine jewelry; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Yet you were naked and bare.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:5 Lit face of the field
  2. Ezekiel 16:5 Lit in the loathing of your soul
  3. Ezekiel 16:7 Lit a myriad

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