¹⁵‘And you trusted in your beauty, and you prostituted on account of your name, and you poured out your fornication on every one passing by, saying, “Let it be his.” ¹⁶And you took from your clothes and you made for yourself colorful^u shrines, and you prostituted on them; this had not happened before,^v and it will not continue to happen.^w ¹⁷And you took your beautiful jewelry^x made from my gold and from my silver that I had given to you, and you made for yourself male images,^y and you prostituted with them. ¹⁸And you took the clothes of your beautiful finished cloth, and you covered them and my oil and my incense you set before them.^z ¹⁹And my bread that I gave to you, finely milled flour and oil and honey with which I fed you, then you set it before them^a as a pleasing odor,^b and so it was,’ declares^c the Lord Yahweh. ²⁰‘And you took your sons and your daughters whom you had borne for me, and you sacrificed them to them to be eaten,^d as if your whorings were not enough.^e ²¹And you slaughtered my children, and you gave them to be sacrificed to them.^f ²²And in all of your detestable things and your fornication you did not remember the days of your childhood when you were naked and bare,^g when you were kicking about in your blood.

²³“ ‘And then after all of your evil! Woe, woe, to you!’ declares^h the Lord Yahweh. ²⁴‘And then you built for yourself a mound, and you made for yourself a high place in every public square. ²⁵At the head of every street you built your high place and you disgraced your beauty and you spread your feet for every passerby, and you increased your whoring. ²⁶And you prostituted with the Egyptians,ⁱ your neighbors who were sexually aroused,^j and you increased your fornication to provoke me. ²⁷And look! I stretched out my hand against you, and I reduced your portion, and I gave you into^k the desire of your haters, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed because of your lewd conduct.^l ²⁸And you prostituted with the Assyrians^m on account of your insatiable lust,ⁿ and you prostituted with them, and still you were not satisfied. ²⁹And you increased your fornication to the land of traders,^o to Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied. ³⁰How hot with fever was your heart!’ declares^p the Lord Yahweh. ‘When you did^q all of these actions of a headstrong female prostitute,^r ³¹when you built^s your mound at the head of every street and your high place you made on every street, yet^t you were^u not like a prostitute, as you were scorning your harlot’s wages. ³²O, adulterous woman! In the place of her husband she received strangers. ³³To all prostitutes they give a fee, but you, you gave your gifts to all of your lovers, and you bribed them to come to you from all around in your whorings! ³⁴And it was the opposite with you from the other women in your whorings; no one solicited you as a prostitute.^v You gave^w a harlot’s wages, and a harlot’s wages were not given to you, and so it was just the opposite.

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Footnotes

uOr “gaudy”
vLiterally “Not were happening”
wLiterally “and not it will be”; Hebrew text unclear
xLiterally “the jewelry of splendor”
yLiterally “images of a male”
zLiterally “to the face of them”
aLiterally “to the face of them”
bLiterally “a scent of an incense”
cLiterally “declaration of”
dOr “consumed”
eLiterally “it was too little from your whorings”
fLiterally “to cause them to cross over to them”
gLiterally “at your being naked and bare”
hLiterally “declaration of”
iLiterally “sons/children of Egypt”
jLiterally “those being great of flesh”
kHebrew “in”
lLiterally “your way of life”
mLiterally “sons/children of Assyria”
nLiterally “of no your satisfaction”
oHebrew “trader”
pLiterally “declaration of”
qLiterally “at/in you to do”
rLiterally “deeds of a woman prostituting domineering”
sLiterally “at/in building your”
tHebrew “and”
uAccording to the reading tradition (Qere)
vLiterally “and after you not he solicited a prostitute”
wLiterally “And at your giving”