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When you were born, no one cut your umbilical cord or washed you[a] or rubbed you with salt or wrapped you in cloths. No one took enough pity on you to do any of these things for you. When you were born, no one loved you. You were thrown out in an open field.

“Then I passed by and saw you squirming in your own blood. You were covered with blood, but I wouldn't let you die.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:4 Hebrew has an additional word, the meaning of which is unclear.

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