Ezekiel 16:15–34

¹⁵“But you ^atrusted in your beauty and ^bplayed the harlot because of your name, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by ¹who might be willing.

¹⁶“You took some of your clothes, made for yourself high places of various colors, and played the harlot on them, ¹which should never come about nor happen.

¹⁷“You also took your splendid ^1ajewelry made of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images that you might play the harlot with them.

¹⁸“Then you took your embroidered cloth and covered them and gave My oil and My incense before them.

¹⁹“Also ^aMy bread which I gave you, fine flour, oil, and honey with which I had you eat, you gave before them for a soothing aroma; so it happened,” declares Lord Yahweh.

²⁰“Moreover, you took your sons and daughters, whom you had borne to ^aMe, and ^bsacrificed them to ¹idols to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter?

²¹“You slaughtered ^aMy children and gave them up to ¹idols by ^bcausing them to pass through the fire.

²²“Besides all your abominations and harlotries you did not remember the days of ^ayour youth, when you were naked and bare—you were squirming in your blood!

²³“Now it happened after all your evil—‘Woe, woe to you!’ declares Lord Yahweh—

²⁴that you built yourself a ^ashrine and made yourself a ^bhigh place in every square.

²⁵“You built yourself a high place at the head of ^aevery street and made your beauty abominable, and you spread your legs to every passer-by to multiply your harlotry.

²⁶“You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your ¹lustful neighbors, and you multiplied your harlotry to ^aprovoke Me to anger.

²⁷“Behold now, I have stretched out My hand against you and cut off your rations. And I gave you up to the desire of those who hate you, the ^adaughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.

²⁸“Moreover, you played the harlot with the ^aAssyrians because you were not satisfied; you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied.

²⁹“You also multiplied your harlotry with the land of merchants, Chaldea, yet even with this you were not satisfied.” ’ ”

³⁰“How ^alanguishing is your heart,” declares Lord Yahweh, “while you do all these things, the actions of a ^1bbold-faced harlot.

³¹“When you built your shrine at the head of every way and made your high place in every square, in ^adisdaining your earnings, you were not like a harlot.

³²“You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

³³“¹Men give gifts to all harlots, but you ^agive your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them to come to you from all around for your harlotries.

³⁴“Thus you are the opposite of those women in your harlotries, in that no one plays the harlot ¹as you do, because you give away your earnings and no earnings are given to you; thus you are the opposite.”