Ezekiel 16:15-30

New King James Version

Jerusalem’s Harlotry

^15 (A)“But you trusted in your own beauty, ^(B)played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing by who would have it. ^16 (C)You took some of your garments and adorned multicolored ^[a]high places for yourself, and played the harlot on them. Such things should not happen, nor be. ¹⁷ You 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. ¹⁸ You took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set My oil and My incense before them. ¹⁹ Also ^(D)My food which I gave you—the pastry of fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you—you set it before them as ^[b]sweet incense; and so it was,” says the Lord God.

^20 (E)“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, ²¹ that you have slain My children and offered them up to them by causing them to pass through the ^(F)fire? ²² And in all your abominations and acts of harlotry you did not remember the days of your ^(G)youth, ^(H)when 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— ²⁴ that ^(I)you also built for yourself a shrine, and ^(J)made a ^[c]high place for yourself in every street. ²⁵ You built your high places ^(K)at 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. ²⁶ You also committed harlotry with ^(L)the Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to ^(M)provoke Me to anger.

²⁷ “Behold, therefore, I stretched out My hand against you, diminished your ^[d]allotment, and gave you up to the will of those who hate you, ^(N)the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. ²⁸ You also played the harlot with the ^(O)Assyrians, because you were insatiable; indeed you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied. ²⁹ Moreover you multiplied your acts of harlotry as far as the land of the trader, ^(P)Chaldea; 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.