²⁹ Then you increased your promiscuity to include Babylonia,^[a](A) a land of merchants, but even with this you were not satisfied.^(B)

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

³² “‘You adulterous wife! You prefer strangers to your own husband! ³³ All prostitutes receive gifts,^(E) but you give gifts^(F) to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.^{(G) 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.

³⁵ “‘Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the Lord! ³⁶ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you poured out your lust and exposed your naked body in your promiscuity with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because you gave them your children’s blood,^{(H) 37} therefore I am going to gather all your lovers, with whom you found pleasure, those you loved as well as those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and will strip^(I) you in front of them, and they will see you stark naked.^{(J) 38} I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and who shed blood;^(K) I will bring on you the blood vengeance of my wrath and jealous anger.^{(L) 39} Then I will deliver you into the hands^(M) of your lovers, and they will tear down your mounds and destroy your lofty shrines. They will strip you of your clothes and take your fine jewelry and leave you stark naked.^{(N) 40} They will bring a mob against you, who will stone^(O) you and hack you to pieces with their swords.