Ezekiel 16:22
Good News Translation
During your disgusting life as a prostitute you never once remembered your childhood--when you were naked, squirming in your own blood."

New Revised Standard Version
And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, flailing about in your blood.

Contemporary English Version
You were so busy sinning and being a prostitute that you refused to think about the days when you were young and were rolling around naked in your own blood.

New American Bible
In all your abominations and prostitutions you did not remember the days of your youth when you were stark naked, struggling in your blood.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And after all thy abominations, and fornications, thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked, and full of confusion, trodden under foot in thy own blood.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And after all thy abominations, and fornications, thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked, and full of confusion, trodden under foot in thy own blood.

Ezekiel 16:3-7,43,60-63 And thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God to Jerusalem: Thy root, and thy nativity is of the land of Chanaan, thy father was an Amorrhite, and thy mother a Cethite. . . .

Jeremiah 2:2 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: I have remembered thee, pitying thy youth, and the love of thy espousals, when thou followedst me in the desert, in a land that is not sown.

Hosea 2:3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born: and I will make her as a wilderness, and will set her as a land that none can pass through and will kill her with drought.

Hosea 11:1 As the morning passeth, so hath the king of Israel passed away. Because Israel was a child, and I loved him: and I called my son out of Egypt.

Context
Jerusalem's Unfaithfulness
21Thou hast sacrificed and given my children to them, consecrating them by fire. 22And after all thy abominations, and fornications, thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked, and full of confusion, trodden under foot in thy own blood.23And it came to pass after all thy wickedness (woe, woe to thee, saith the Lord God)…
Cross References
Psalm 129:1
A gradual canticle. Often have they fought against me from my youth, let Israel now say.

Jeremiah 2:2
Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: I have remembered thee, pitying thy youth, and the love of thy espousals, when thou followedst me in the desert, in a land that is not sown.

Ezekiel 16:23
And it came to pass after all thy wickedness (woe, woe to thee, saith the Lord God)

Ezekiel 16:43
Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast provoked me in all these things: wherefore I also have turned all thy ways upon thy head, saith the Lord God, and I have not done according to thy wicked deeds in all thy abominations.

Hosea 2:3
Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born: and I will make her as a wilderness, and will set her as a land that none can pass through and will kill her with drought.

Ezekiel 16:21
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