KJVAnd tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.
and thou tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them, and didst set mine oil and mine incense before them.
You took your embroidered garments to cover them, and you set My oil and incense before them.
And dost take the garments of thy embroidery, And thou dost cover them, And My oil and My perfume thou hast set before them.
And thou tookest thine embroidered garments, and coveredst them; and thou didst set mine oil and mine incense before them.
Ezekiel — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
The allegory which runs through this chapter is by no means an unusual one in the Prophets. The beginning of Ezekiel 16:3 has occasioned some variety of remark. OEcolampadius takes mkvrh, mekoreh, meaning "birth," "origin," for mgvrh, megoreh, meaning "dwelling;" as Calvin translates it habitationes. Houbigant derives it from krh,…