KJV ORIGINAL
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
Tell Jerusalem this message from God: 'Your roots aren't as pure as you think. You were born in Canaan, with an Amorite father and a Hittite mother — basically, you come from the same pagan nations you look down on.'
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
God's calling out Jerusalem for forgetting they have the same messy origins as everyone else.
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