Ezekiel 16:15-22

Good News Translation

¹⁵ “But you took advantage of your beauty and fame to sleep with everyone who came along.^{[a] 16} You used some of your clothes to decorate your places of worship, and just like a prostitute,^[b] you gave yourself to everyone. ¹⁷ You took the silver and gold jewelry that I had given you, used it to make male images, and committed adultery with them. ¹⁸ You took the embroidered clothes I gave you and put them on the images, and you offered to the images the olive oil and incense I had given you. ¹⁹ I gave you food—the best flour, olive oil, and honey—but you offered it as a sacrifice to win the favor of idols.” This is what the Sovereign Lord says.

²⁰ “Then you took the sons and the daughters you had borne me and offered them as sacrifices to idols. Wasn't it bad enough to be unfaithful to me, ²¹ without taking my children and sacrificing them to idols? ²² During your disgusting life as a prostitute you never once remembered your childhood—when you were naked, squirming in your own blood.”