Ezekiel 16:13–33

¹³Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. ^lYou ate pastry of fine flour, honey, and oil. You were exceedingly ^mbeautiful, and succeeded to royalty. ¹⁴ⁿYour fame went out among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through My splendor which I had bestowed on you,” says the Lord God.

Jerusalem’s Harlotry

^15o“But you trusted in your own beauty, ^pplayed the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing by who would have it. ^16qYou took some of your garments and adorned multicolored ⁷high places for yourself, and played the harlot on them. Such things should not happen, nor be. ¹⁷You have also taken your beautiful jewelry from My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images and played the harlot with them. ¹⁸You took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set My oil and My incense before them. ¹⁹Also ^rMy food which I gave you—the pastry of fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you—you set it before them as ⁸sweet incense; and so it was,” says the Lord God.

^20s“Moreover you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your acts of harlotry a small matter, ²¹that you have slain My children and offered them up to them by causing them to pass through the ^tfire? ²²And in all your abominations and acts of harlotry you did not remember the days of your ^uyouth, ^vwhen you were naked and bare, struggling in your blood.

²³“Then it was so, after all your wickedness—‘Woe, woe to you!’ says the Lord God—²⁴that ^wyou also built for yourself a shrine, and ^xmade a ⁹high place for yourself in every street. ²⁵You built your high places ^yat the head of every road, and made your beauty to be abhorred. You offered yourself to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your acts of harlotry. ²⁶You also committed harlotry with ^zthe Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to ^aprovoke Me to anger.

²⁷“Behold, therefore, I stretched out My hand against you, diminished your ¹allotment, and gave you up to the will of those who hate you, ^bthe daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. ²⁸You also played the harlot with the ^cAssyrians, because you were insatiable; indeed you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied. ²⁹Moreover you multiplied your acts of harlotry as far as the land of the trader, ^dChaldea; and even then you were not satisfied.

³⁰“How degenerate is your heart!” says the Lord God, “seeing you do all these things, the deeds of a brazen harlot.

Jerusalem’s Adultery

^31e“You erected your shrine at the head of every road, and built your ²high place in every street. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned ^fpayment. ³²You are an adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband. ³³Men make payment to all harlots, but ^gyou made your payments to all your lovers, and ³hired them to come to you from all around for your harlotry.