23 “And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord God), 24 you built yourself (A)a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square. 25 At the head of every street (B)you built your lofty place and made (C)your beauty an abomination, (D)offering yourself[a] to any passerby and multiplying your whoring. 26 (E)You also played the whore (F)with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, (G)multiplying your whoring, (H)to provoke me to anger. 27 Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you (I)and diminished your allotted portion (J)and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, (K)the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. 28 (L)You played the whore also (M)with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied. 29 You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land (N)of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.

30 “How sick is your heart,[b] declares the Lord God, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute, 31 building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, (O)because you scorned payment. 32 Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband! 33 Men give gifts to all prostitutes, (P)but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings. 34 So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and (Q)you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:25 Hebrew spreading your legs
  2. Ezekiel 16:30 Revocalization yields How I am filled with anger against you

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