Ezekiel 16:16-29

16You took some of your clothes and made your worship sites colorful. This is where you acted like a prostitute. Such things shouldn’t happen. They shouldn’t occur.

17You took your beautiful gold and silver jewelry that I had given you and made male idols for yourself. Then you committed adultery with them.

18You took off your embroidered clothes and covered the idols with them. You offered my olive oil and incense in their presence.

19You also offered them sweet and fragrant sacrifices. You gave flour, olive oil, and honey—all the food that I gave you to eat. This is what happened, declares the Almighty Lord.

20“ ‘You took your sons and daughters, who belonged to me, and you sacrificed them as food to idols. Wasn’t your prostitution enough?

21You slaughtered my children and presented them as burnt offerings to idols.

22With all the disgusting things that you did and all your acts of prostitution, you didn’t remember the time when you were young. You didn’t remember when you were naked and bare, kicking around in your own blood.

23“ ‘How horrible! How horrible it will be for you! declares the Almighty Lord. After all your wickedness,

24you built yourself platforms and illegal worship sites in every city square.

25You also built worship sites at the head of every street. You used your beauty to seduce people there. You offered your body to everyone who passed by. You increased your acts of prostitution.

26You had sex with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians. You used your prostitution to make me angry.

27“ ‘So I used my power against you. I took away some of your land, and I handed you over to your greedy enemies, the Philistines, who were ashamed of what you had done.

28“ ‘You had sex with the Assyrians because you weren’t satisfied. You still weren’t satisfied.

29So you increased your acts of prostitution to include the land of the merchants, the Babylonians. Even after that, you weren’t satisfied.