Ezekiel 16:1-3

International Standard Version

A Prophecy Confronting Jerusalem

16 This message came to me from the Lord: ² “Son of Man, make known to Israel her detestable practices. ³ You are to declare, ‘This is what the Lord God says to Jerusalem: “Your birth place^[a] was the territory that belonged to the Canaanites. Your father was an Ammonite and your mother was a Hittite.