Ezekiel 16:29-40

English Standard Version

²⁹ You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land ^(A)of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.

³⁰ “How sick is your heart,^[a] declares the Lord God, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute, ³¹ building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, ^(B)because you scorned payment. ³² Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband! ³³ Men give gifts to all prostitutes, ^(C)but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings. ³⁴ So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and ^(D)you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different.

³⁵ “Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the Lord: ³⁶ Thus says the Lord God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, ^(E)and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them, ³⁷ therefore, behold, ^(F)I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and ^(G)all those you hated. ^(H)I will gather them against you from every side ^(I)and will uncover your nakedness to them, that ^(J)they may see all your nakedness. ^38 (K)And I will judge you ^(L)as women who commit adultery and ^(M)shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy. ³⁹ And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your ^(N)vaulted chamber and break down ^(O)your lofty places. ^(P)They shall strip you of your clothes and take ^(Q)your beautiful jewels and leave you ^(R)naked and bare. ^40 (S)They shall bring up a crowd against you, ^(T)and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.