But you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to become a prostitute

Ezekiel 16:01-29

On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths. No one looked on you with pity or had compassion enough to do any of these things for you. Rather, you were thrown out into the open field, for on the day you were born you were despised.

Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, “Live!” I made you grow like a plant of the field. You grew and developed and entered puberty. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, yet you were stark naked.

Later I passed by, and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for love, I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your naked body. I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Sovereign Lord, and you became mine.

But you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to become a prostitute. You lavished your favors on anyone who passed by and your beauty became his.

And you took your sons and daughters whom you bore to me and sacrificed them as food to the idols. Was your prostitution not enough? You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols. In all your detestable practices and your prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, kicking about in your blood.

You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your neighbors with large genitals, and aroused my anger with your increasing promiscuity. So I stretched out my hand against you and reduced your territory; I gave you over to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were shocked by your lewd conduct. You engaged in prostitution with the Assyrians too, because you were insatiable; and even after that, you still were not satisfied. Then you increased your promiscuity to include Babylonia, a land of merchants, but even with this you were not satisfied.

Why?

The Israelites were born without love and caring. It is the Lord who has compassion for her, helps her and takes care of her. But when she was getting old enough she took her sons and daughters who were born with the Lord and sacrificed them as good to the idols. 

How sad of the Lord to see these situations, so the wrath of the Lord come upon Jerusalem.

The Lord told Ezekiel why destroyed Jerusalem for their crimes are too many, and the Lord was sad about their behavior like prostitution.

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v1-9 以色列人原來是棄嬰。本質上和迦南一樣，本來該全部被滅掉。人先天條件本來就是不合格。沒有人可憐的是最可憐的。這就是所有人的光景！神給我們盼望與勇氣！

v10-14 神不僅收養，還穿金戴銀：神愛人，用衣襟搭在人身上是遮羞之意，也是男人向女人告白的方式，表達保護。給人榮上加榮。抹油： 全身保養。打扮，吃美味，捧到最高地位。

v15-29 背叛神拜偶像，不倚靠神反而依靠其他國家：以色列蒙恩的人背叛施恩的神。以色列人用美貌、金銀、衣服、香膏、食物、兒女來背叛。用神給的恩典拿去給別人，或是佔為己有。人離開向就會覺得不可靠，還要找其他可靠的國。造圓頂花樓其實想引人注意。

仍不滿意二次：亞述，巴比倫。詩16:4 以別神代替耶和華的，他們的愁苦必加增。

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How?

May my heart and my mind go with the Lord, and don't let the Holy Spirit worry about me.