16:1 The word of the Lord came to me: 16:2 “Son of man, confront Jerusalem 1 with her abominable practices 16:3 and say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. 16:4 As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water; 2 you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets. 3 16:5 No eye took pity on you to do even one of these things for you to spare you; 4 you were thrown out into the open field 5 because you were detested on the day you were born.