16 Again the word of the Lord came to me: 2 b “Son of man, c make known to Jerusalem her abominations, 3 and say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an d Amorite and your mother a e Hittite. 4 And as for your birth, f on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. 5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, g but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, f on the day that you were born.
6 “And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing h in your blood, I said to you h in your blood, ‘Live!’ I said to you h in your blood, ‘Live!’
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