^7 (A)I made you ^[a]thrive like a plant in the field; and you grew, matured, and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed, your hair grew, but you were naked and bare.

⁸ “When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; ^(B)so I spread ^[b]My wing over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I ^(C)swore an oath to you and entered into a ^(D)covenant with you, and ^(E)you became Mine,” says the Lord God.

⁹ “Then I washed you in water; yes, I thoroughly washed off your blood, and I anointed you with oil. ¹⁰ I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of ^[c]badger skin; I clothed you with fine linen and covered you with silk. ¹¹ I adorned you with ornaments, ^(F)put bracelets on your wrists, ^(G)and a chain on your neck. ¹² And I put a ^[d]jewel in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head. ¹³ Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. ^(H)You ate pastry of fine flour, honey, and oil. You were exceedingly ^(I)beautiful, and succeeded to royalty. ^14 (J)Your fame went out among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through My splendor which I had bestowed on you,” says the Lord God.

Jerusalem’s Harlotry

^15 (K)“But you trusted in your own beauty, ^(L)played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing by who would have it. ^16 (M)You took some of your garments and adorned multicolored ^[e]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 ^(N)My food which I gave you—the pastry of fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you—you set it before them as ^[f]sweet incense; and so it was,” says the Lord God.

^20 (O)“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 ^(P)fire? ²² And in all your abominations and acts of harlotry you did not remember the days of your ^(Q)youth, ^(R)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 ^(S)you also built for yourself a shrine, and ^(T)made a ^[g]high place for yourself in every street. ²⁵ You built your high places ^(U)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 ^(V)the Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to ^(W)provoke Me to anger.

²⁷ “Behold, therefore, I stretched out My hand against you, diminished your ^[h]allotment, and gave you up to the will of those who hate you, ^(X)the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. ²⁸ You also played the harlot with the ^(Y)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, ^(Z)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.

Jerusalem’s Adultery

^31 (AA)“You erected your shrine at the head of every road, and built your ^[i]high place in every street. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned ^(AB)payment. ³² You are an adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband. ³³ Men make payment to all harlots, but ^(AC)you made your payments to all your lovers, and ^[j]hired them to come to you from all around for your harlotry. ³⁴ You are the opposite of other women in your harlotry, because no one solicited you to be a harlot. In that you gave payment but no payment was given you, therefore you are the opposite.”