Ezekiel 16:15-34

New American Standard Bible

¹⁵ “But you ^(A)trusted in your beauty and ^(B)became unfaithful because of your fame, and you poured out your ^[a]obscene practices on every passer-by to whom it might be tempting. ¹⁶ You took some of your clothes, made for yourself ^[b]high places of various colors, and committed prostitution on them, which should not come about nor happen. ¹⁷ You also took your beautiful ^[c](C)jewels made of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images so that you might commit prostitution with them. ¹⁸ Then you took your colorfully woven cloth and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them. ¹⁹ Also ^(D)My bread which I gave you, fine flour, oil, and honey with which I fed you, ^[d]you would offer before them for a soothing aroma; so it happened,” declares the Lord God. ²⁰ “Furthermore, you took your sons and daughters whom you had borne to ^(E)Me and ^(F)sacrificed them to ^[e]idols to be devoured. Were your obscene practices a trivial matter? ²¹ You slaughtered ^(G)My children and offered them to ^[f]idols by ^(H)making them pass through the fire. ²² And besides all your abominations and obscene practices, you did not remember the days of ^(I)your youth, when you were naked and bare and squirming in your blood.

²³ “Then it came about after all your wickedness (‘Woe, woe to you!’ declares the Lord God), ²⁴ that you built yourself a ^(J)shrine and made yourself a ^(K)high place in every public square. ²⁵ You built yourself a high place at the beginning of ^(L)every street and made your beauty abominable, and you spread your legs to every passer-by and multiplied your obscene practice. ²⁶ You also committed prostitution with the Egyptians, your ^[g]lustful neighbors, and multiplied your obscene practice to ^(M)provoke Me to anger. ²⁷ So behold, I have stretched out My hand against you and cut back your rations. And I turned you over to the desire of those who hate you, the ^(N)daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your outrageous conduct. ²⁸ Moreover, you committed prostitution with the ^(O)Assyrians because you were not satisfied; you committed prostitution with them and still were not satisfied. ²⁹ You also multiplied your obscene practice with the land of merchants, Chaldea; yet even with this you were not satisfied.”’”

³⁰ “How ^(P)feverish is your heart,” declares the Lord God, “while you do all these things, the action of a ^[h](Q)bold prostitute! ³¹ When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every public square, in ^(R)spurning a prostitute’s fee, you were not like a prostitute. ³² You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband! ³³ Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you ^(S)give your gifts to all your lovers and lavish favors on them so that they will come to you from every direction for your obscene practices. ³⁴ So it is the opposite for you from those women in your obscene practices, in that you are not approached for prostitution, and in the fact that you pay a prostitute’s fee, and no fee is paid to you; so you are the opposite.”