Ezekiel 16:15–34

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 16}You 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 17}You 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 18}And 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

²⁰“ ‘And you took your sons and daughters^m whom you bore to meⁿ and sacrificed them as food to the idols. Was your prostitution not enough?^{o 21}You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.^{p 22}In all your detestable practices and your prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth,^q when you were naked and bare,^r kicking about in your blood.^s

²³“ ‘Woe!^t Woe to you, declares the Sovereign Lord. In addition to all your other wickedness, ²⁴you built a mound for yourself and made a lofty shrine^u in every public square.^{v 25}At every street corner^w you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty, spreading your legs with increasing promiscuity to anyone who passed by.^{x 26}You engaged in prostitution^y with the Egyptians,^z your neighbors with large genitals, and aroused my anger^a with your increasing promiscuity.^{b 27}So I stretched out my hand^c against you and reduced your territory; I gave you over^d to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines,^e who were shocked by your lewd conduct. ²⁸You engaged in prostitution with the Assyrians^f too, because you were insatiable; and even after that, you still were not satisfied.^{g 29}Then you increased your promiscuity to include Babylonia,^ch a land of merchants, but even with this you were not satisfied.ⁱ

³⁰“ ‘I am filled with fury against you,^d declares the Sovereign Lord, when you do all these things, acting like a brazen prostitute!^{j 31}When you built your mounds at every street corner and made your lofty shrines^k in every public square, you were unlike a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

³²“ ‘You adulterous wife! You prefer strangers to your own husband! ³³All prostitutes receive gifts,^l but you give gifts^m to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.^{n 34}So in your prostitution you are the opposite of others; no one runs after you for your favors. You are the very opposite, for you give payment and none is given to you.