Ezekiel 16:15–34

¹⁵But you trusted in your beauty and prostituted yourself because of your fame and lavished your prostitutions on any passer-by.^{t* 16}You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful high places and on them prostituted yourself; nothing like this has ever been or ever shall be.^{u* 17}You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and my silver that I had given you and made for yourself male images and with them prostituted yourself,^{* 18}and you took your embroidered garments to cover them and set my oil and my incense before them. ¹⁹Also my bread that I gave you—I fed you with choice flour and oil and honey—you set it before them as a pleasing odor, and so it was, says the Lord God. ²⁰You took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. As if your prostitutions were not enough!^{* 21}You slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering to them.^{* 22}And in all your abominations and your prostitutions you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, flailing about in your blood.^*

²³After all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! says the Lord God), ²⁴you built yourself a platform and made yourself a lofty place in every square;^{* 25}at the head of every street you built your lofty place and prostituted your beauty, offering yourself^v to every passer-by and multiplying your prostitution.^{* 26}You prostituted yourself with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors,^w multiplying your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.^{* 27}Therefore I stretched out my hand against you, reduced your rations, and gave you up to the will of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.^{* 28}You prostituted yourself with the Assyrians because you were insatiable; you prostituted yourself with them, and still you were not satisfied.^{* 29}You multiplied your prostitution with Chaldea, the land of merchants, and even with this you were not satisfied.^*

³⁰How sick is your heart,^x says the Lord God, that you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute, ³¹building your platform at the head of every street and making your lofty place in every square! Yet you were not like a prostitute because you scorned payment. ³²Adulterous wife who receives strangers instead of her husband! ³³Gifts are given to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from all around for your prostitutions.^{* 34}So you were different from other women in your prostitutions: no one solicited you to prostitute yourself, and you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; you were different.