No eye pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown out into the open field, when you yourself were [a]loathed on the day you were born.

“And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ (A)I made you [b]thrive like a plant in the field; and you grew, matured, and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed, your hair grew, but you were naked and bare.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:5 abhorred
  2. Ezekiel 16:7 Lit. a myriad

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