Ezekiel 16:8-32

8"When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God, and you became mine.

9Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil.

10I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.

11And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck.

12And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

13Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.

14And 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"But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty 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.

17You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore.

18And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them.

19Also my bread that I gave you—I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord God.

20And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and 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 the days of your youth, 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 a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square.

25At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.

26You also played the whore with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your whoring, to provoke me to anger.

27Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and diminished your allotted portion and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.

28You played the whore also 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 of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.

30"How sick is your heart, declares the Lord God, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute,

31building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

32Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!