No one cared enough about you to do even one of these things out of compassion for you. But you were thrown out into the open field because you were despised on the day you were born.

“I passed by you and saw you lying in your blood, and I said to you as you lay in your blood: Live! Yes, I said to you as you lay in your blood: Live![a] I made you thrive[b] like plants of the field.(A) You grew up and matured and became very beautiful.[c] Your breasts were formed and your hair grew, but you were stark naked.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:6 Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr omit Yes, I said to you [as you lay] in your blood: Live!
  2. Ezekiel 16:7 LXX reads Thrive; I made you
  3. Ezekiel 16:7 Or matured and developed the loveliest of ornaments

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