¹³So you were adorned with gold and silver; your clothes^z were of fine linen and costly fabric and embroidered cloth. Your food was honey, olive oil^a and the finest flour. You became very beautiful and rose to be a queen.^b ¹⁴And your fame^c spread among the nations on account of your beauty,^d because the splendor I had given you made your beauty perfect, declares the Sovereign Lord.^e

¹⁵“ ‘But you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to become a prostitute. You lavished your favors on anyone who passed by^f and your beauty became his.^g ¹⁶You took some of your garments to make gaudy high places,^h where you carried on your prostitution.ⁱ You went to him, and he possessed your beauty.^b ¹⁷You also took the fine jewelry I gave you, the jewelry made of my gold and silver, and you made for yourself male idols and engaged in prostitution with them.^j ¹⁸And you took your embroidered clothes to put on them, and you offered my oil and incense^k before them. ¹⁹Also the food I provided for you—the flour, olive oil and honey I gave you to eat—you offered as fragrant incense before them. That is what happened, declares the Sovereign Lord.^l

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Footnotes

bThe meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.

Cross references

z Est 5:1
a 1 Sa 10:1
b Dt 32:13–14; See 1 Ki 4:21; See Est 2:9, 17
c 1 Ki 10:24
dSee Est 1:11; See Ps 48:2; See La 2:15
eSee Eze 5:5
fver 25
gSee Isa 57:8; See Jer 2:20; Eze 23:3; 27:3
hSee Isa 57:7
iSee 2 Ki 23:7
jSee Eze 7:20; Hos 2:13
kSee Jer 44:5
l Hos 2:8