Ezekiel 16:15–34

¹⁵“But you were confident in your beauty and acted like a prostitute because of your fame. ^dYou lavished your sexual favors on everyone who passed by. ^eYour beauty became his. ^f16You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and you engaged in prostitution on them. These places should not have been built, and this should never have happened! ^g17You also took your beautiful jewelry made from the gold and silver I had given you, ^hand you made male images so that you could engage in prostitution with them. ¹⁸Then you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set My oil and incense before them. ¹⁹You also set before them as a pleasing aroma the food I gave you—the fine flour, oil, and honey that I fed you. ⁱThat is what happened.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

²⁰“You even took your sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them to these images as food. ^jWasn’t your prostitution enough? ²¹You slaughtered My children and gave them up when you passed them through the fire ^kto the images. ²²In all your detestable practices and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth ^lwhen you were stark naked and lying in your blood.

²³“Then after all your evil—Woe, woe to you!”—the declaration of the Lord God— ²⁴“you built yourself a mound and made yourself an elevated place in every square. ^m25You built your elevated place at the head of every street ⁿand turned your beauty into a detestable thing. You spread your legs to everyone who passed by and increased your prostitution. ²⁶You engaged in promiscuous acts with Egyptian men, your well-endowed neighbors, and increased your prostitution ^oto provoke Me to anger.

²⁷“Therefore, I stretched out My hand against you and reduced your provisions. I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the Philistine women, ^pwho were embarrassed by your indecent behavior. ²⁸Then you engaged in prostitution with the Assyrian men because you were not satisfied. ^qEven though you did this with them, you were still not satisfied. ²⁹So you extended your prostitution to Chaldea, ^rthe land of merchants, but you were not even satisfied with this!

³⁰“How your heart was inflamed with lust”—the declaration of the Lord God—“when you did all these things, the acts of a brazen prostitute, ³¹building your mound at the head of every street and making your elevated place in every square. But you were unlike a prostitute because you scorned payment. ^s32You adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband! ³³Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from all around for your sexual favors. ³⁴So you were the opposite of other women in your acts of prostitution; no one solicited you. When you paid a fee instead of one being paid to you, you were the opposite.