Because you did not remember the days of your youth but enraged me with all these things

Ezekiel 16:30-63

I am filled with fury against you, declares the Sovereign Lord, when you do all these things, acting like a brazen prostitute!

You adulterous wife! You prefer strangers to your own husband! All prostitutes receive gifts, but you give gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors. So in your prostitution you are the opposite of others; no one runs after you for your favors. You are the very opposite, for you give payment and none is given to you.

Because you poured out your lust and exposed your naked body in your promiscuity with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because you gave them your children’s blood, therefore I am going to gather all your lovers, with whom you found pleasure, those you loved as well as those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and will strip you in front of them, and they will see you stark naked. I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and who shed blood; I will bring on you the blood vengeance of my wrath and jealous anger. Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your mounds and destroy your lofty shrines. They will strip you of your clothes and take your fine jewelry and leave you stark naked.

Because you did not remember the days of your youth but enraged me with all these things, I will surely bring down on your head what you have done, declares the Sovereign Lord. Did you not add lewdness to all your other detestable practices?

This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will deal with you as you deserve, because you have despised my oath by breaking the covenant. Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you. Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both those who are older than you and those who are younger. I will give them to you as daughters, but not on the basis of my covenant with you. So I will establish my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the Lord. Then, when I make atonement for you for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your humiliation, declares the Sovereign Lord.’”

Why?

The Israelites did detestable things are more worse than any other country, worse than Sodoma, and the people of Cannan. So the wrath of the Lord come upon them.

Because they did not remember the day of their youth engaged the Lord with all these things.

The is righteousness and full of love, even under the wrath of righteousness there is a way keep for them to return. The Lord remembers the covenant with them.

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1.拜偶像 2.向外國進貢：比喻為娼妓，甚至不拿酬勞，反而送禮給外國。

35節起 神的審判，一切所愛的，所恨的，都來攻擊以色列。原來以為有益的，追求的反而得到禍害，沒有面子！展現國力的建設，全被搗毀，全被奪走，回到原來赤身裸體的樣子。

所多瑪城義人不到5人，猶大的惡與他們相比，甚至比所多瑪不如。猶大驕傲自以為義，其實更惡。我們應當更多思想自己，是否我們也自以為聖潔，公義? 只因為神愛我們，憐憫我們。神記念與人立的約，我們也要記念人與神的約。

自覺自己犯罪，不再找藉口，感到羞愧才會悔改。神因為愛人，當人還沒有能力悔改時把神的義加給人身上。神的恩典白白的給我們。

How?

Praise the Lord and give thanks to the Lord, keep my way and my mouth along with the Lord.