the word of the LORD came to me: (Hypnotist’s voice).
2 son of man! what advantage does the vine tree have over any other tree and the branches of the vine – between the trees in the forest? (Comparison with plants and trees).
3 Do they take a piece from him for any product? Do they take at least a nail from him to hang any thing on it? (Comparison with plants and trees).
4 Behold, it is given to the fire to be eaten; the fire has eaten both ends of it, and the middle of it is burnt: is it fit for any article? (Comparison with plants and trees).
5 And then, as it was whole, it was not suitable for any product; moreover, when the fire ate it, and it was burned, is it suitable for any product? (Comparison with plants and trees).
6 Therefore thus saith the LORD God: As the tree of the vine among the trees of the forest I have given to the fire to be eaten, so will I give to it the inhabitants of Jerusalem. (Comparison with plants and trees).
7 And I will turn my face against them; they will come out of one fire, and another fire will devour them, and you will know that I am the LORD when I turn my face against them. (The Jewish priests threaten the wicked through their prophet).
8 And I will make this land desolate because they have treacherously acted, says the LORD God. (The Jewish priests threaten the wicked through their prophet).
Chapter 16
1 And the word of the LORD came to me: (Hypnotist’s voice).
2 son of man! express its abominations to Jerusalem (the Jewish priests threaten the wicked through their prophet).
3 And say: Thus saith the LORD God of Jerusalem: your root and your homeland are in the land of Canaan; your father is an Amorite, and your mother is a Hittite; (The Amorites are one of the groups of nomadic Semitic tribes that invaded Mesopotamia and Canaan around 2000 BC. They conquered Sumer (Sennaar), Akkad and Assyria and founded their dynasties in the city-states of Canaan. In 1792 BC, Hammurabi ascended the throne in the small Amorite state of Babylon, who later conquered all of Sumer and Akkad. Under the rule of the dynasty of kings founded by the Amorites, a powerful empire of antiquity was created – the Assyrian power. The Hittites (or Hittites) are ancient tribes belonging to the Indo-European group of peoples; according to Biblical history, the Hittites descend from Heth, the son of Canaan (Gen. 15:20; 23:3, etc.). The Hittites appeared on the territory of modern Turkey in the 2nd millennium BC. Their unification into a single kingdom occurred ca. 1740 BC. The highest heyday of the Hittite empire occurred in the XV – XIV centuries BC. The Hittites occupied Syria and conquered Babylon (c. 1595 BC). During the period of the New Hittite Kingdom (1450—1200 BC) there were clashes with the Egyptians. After the battle of Kadesh in 1286, a peace treaty was concluded between the two empires, establishing the southern border of the Hittite empire approximately along the northern border of Palestine. Around 1200 BC, the Hittite empire collapsed under the blows of the «peoples of the sea» (see: Philistines), but the Hittite culture survived in certain areas, including in Northern Syria. The Hittites are mentioned in the time of Solomon, and later, in the time of the prophet Elisha (3 Kings 10.29; 11:1; 4 Kings 7:6).).
4 at your birth, on the day you were born, your navel was not cut off, and you were not washed with water for purification, and you were not salted with salt, and you were not wrapped in swaddling clothes. (Comparison with the birth of a child with bad parents).
5 No one’s eye took pity on you to do any of these things out of mercy for you; but you were thrown out into the field, out of contempt for your life, on the day of your birth. (Comparison with the birth of a child with bad parents).
6 And I was passing by you, and I saw you being trampled on in your blood, and I said to you, «Live in your blood!» So I said to you, «live in your blood!» (Comparison with the birth of a child with bad parents).
7 He multiplied you like the plants of the field; you grew up and became large, and achieved excellent beauty: your breasts were lifted up, and your hair grew; but you were naked and uncovered. (Comparison with field plants).
8 And I passed by you, and saw you, and, behold, it was your time, the time of love; and I stretched out the resurrection And he swore to you and made a covenant with you, says the LORD God, and you became mine. (Comparison with the birth of a child with good parents).
9 I have washed you with water, and washed your blood from you, and anointed you with oil. (Comparison with the birth of a child with good parents).
10 And he put a patterned dress on you, and shod you in morocco sandals, and girded you with linen, and covered you with a silk veil. (Comparison with the birth of a child with good parents).
11 And he dressed you in finery, and put your wrists on your hands and a necklace on your neck. (Wrists or bracelets are jewelry in the form of rings or ribbons worn on the hand by both women and men).
12 And he gave you a ring on your nose, and earrings for your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head. (Comparison with the birth of a child with good parents).
13 So you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothes were fine linen and silk and patterned fabrics; you ate bread made of the best wheat flour, honey and oil, and you were extremely beautiful, and achieved royal greatness. (Comparison with the birth of a child with good parents).
14 And your glory spread among the nations for the sake of your beauty, because it was completely perfect with the magnificent outfit that I put on you, says the Lord God. (Comparison with the birth of a child with good parents).
15 But you trusted in your beauty, and taking advantage of your glory, you began to fornicate and lavished your fornication on everyone passing by, giving yourself to him. (Comparison with a wayward daughter-daughter).
16 And she took out of your garments, and made for herself many-colored heights, and committed fornication on them, as it will never happen and will never happen. (Comparison with a wayward daughter-daughter).
17 And she took your fine things of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for herself male images, and fornicated with them. (Comparison with a wayward daughter-daughter).
18 And she took your patterned dresses, and clothed them with them, and set my oil and my incense before them, (A comparison with a wayward daughter-daughter).
19 And my bread, which I gave you, wheat flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you set before them in a pleasant fragrance; and it was, says the LORD God. (Comparison with a wayward daughter-daughter).
20 And she took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to me, and sacrificed them for food. Was it not enough for you to commit fornication? (Comparison with a wayward daughter-daughter).
21 But you also killed my sons and gave them to them, leading them through [fire]. (Comparison with a wayward daughter-daughter).
22 And with all your abominations and your fornications, you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and uncovered, and cast in your blood to be trampled on. (Comparison with a wayward daughter-daughter).
23 And after all your evil deeds, woe, woe to you! says the Lord God, – (The promise of all kinds of troubles and misfortunes).
24 you have built fornications for yourself and made yourself high places in every square; (Comparison with a wayward daughter-daughter).
25 at the beginning of every road, she made herself exalted, disgraced your beauty, and spread out your feet for everyone passing by, and multiplied your fornications. (Comparison with a wayward daughter-daughter).
26 You have fornicated with the sons of Egypt, your neighbors, men of great stature, and you have multiplied your fornications, angering me. (Comparison with a wayward daughter-daughter).
27 And, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and have reduced what