Ezekiel 16:14-27

English Standard Version

¹⁴ And ^(A)your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord God.

^15 (B)“But you trusted in your beauty ^(C)and played the whore^[a] because of your renown ^(D)and lavished your whorings^[b] on any passerby; your beauty^[c] became his. ¹⁶ You 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] 17} You also took ^(E)your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and ^(F)made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore. ¹⁸ And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, ^(G)and set my oil and my incense before them. ^19 (H)Also my bread that I gave you—^(I)I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for ^(J)a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord God. ^20 (K)And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and ^(L)these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter ²¹ that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them? ²² And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember ^(M)the days of your youth, ^(N)when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.

²³ “And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord God), ²⁴ you built yourself ^(O)a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square. ²⁵ At the head of every street ^(P)you built your lofty place and made ^(Q)your beauty an abomination, ^(R)offering yourself^[e] to any passerby and multiplying your whoring. ^26 (S)You also played the whore ^(T)with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, ^(U)multiplying your whoring, ^(V)to provoke me to anger. ²⁷ Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you ^(W)and diminished your allotted portion ^(X)and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, ^(Y)the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.