1 The word of Yahweh was addressed to me as follows,2 ‘Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her loathsome practices!3 Say, “The Lord Yahweh says this: By origin and birth you belong to the land of Canaan. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.4 At birth, the very day you were born, there was no one to cut your navel-string, or wash you in water to clean you, or rub you with salt, or wrap you in swaddling clothes.5 No one looked at you with pity enough to do any of these things out of sympathy for you.