Ezekiel 16:43
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Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but enraged Me with all these things, I will surely bring your deeds down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your other abominations?
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And in all your abominations and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your own blood.
So I have poured out My indignation upon them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their ways down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”
They did not remember His power— the day He redeemed them from the adversary,
But as for those whose hearts pursue detestable things and abominations, I will bring their conduct down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”
But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.
Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.
They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”