Ezekiel 16:15-30

English Standard Version

¹⁵^(A)“But you trusted in your beauty ^(B)and played the whore^[a] because of your renown ^(C)and lavished your whorings^[b] on any passerby; your beauty^[c] became his. ¹⁶You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.^[d] ¹⁷You also took ^(D)your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and ^(E)made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore. ¹⁸And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, ^(F)and set my oil and my incense before them. ¹⁹^(G)Also my bread that I gave you—^(H)I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for ^(I)a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord God. ²⁰^(J)And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and ^(K)these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter ²¹that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them? ²²And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember ^(L)the days of your youth, ^(M)when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.

²³“And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord God), ²⁴you built yourself ^(N)a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square. ²⁵At the head of every street ^(O)you built your lofty place and made ^(P)your beauty an abomination, ^(Q)offering yourself^[e] to any passerby and multiplying your whoring. ²⁶^(R)You also played the whore ^(S)with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, ^(T)multiplying your whoring, ^(U)to provoke me to anger. ²⁷Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you ^(V)and diminished your allotted portion ^(W)and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, ^(X)the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. ²⁸^(Y)You played the whore also ^(Z)with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied. ²⁹You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land ^(AA)of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.