Ezekiel 16:15-35

15“But you 1trusted in your beauty and 2played the harlot because of your fame, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by 3who might be willing. 16You took some of your clothes, made for yourself high places of various colors and played the harlot on them, 4which should never come about nor happen. 17You also took your beautiful 56jewels made of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images that you might play the harlot with them. 18Then you took your embroidered cloth and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them. 19Also 7My bread which I gave you, fine flour, oil and honey with which I fed you, 8you would offer before them for a soothing aroma; so it happened,” declares the Lord God. 20“Moreover, you took your sons and daughters whom you had borne to 9Me and 10sacrificed them to 11idols to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter? 21You slaughtered 12My children and offered them up to 13idols by 14causing them to pass through the fire. 22Besides all your abominations and harlotries you did not remember the days of 15your 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), 24that you built yourself a 16shrine and made yourself a 17high place in every square. 25You built yourself a high place at the top of 18every street and made your beauty abominable, and you spread your legs to every passer-by to multiply your harlotry. 26You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your 19lustful neighbors, and multiplied your harlotry to 20make Me angry. 27Behold now, I have stretched out My hand against you and diminished your rations. And I delivered you up to the desire of those who hate you, the 21daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd conduct. 28Moreover, you played the harlot with the 22Assyrians because you were not satisfied; you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied. 29You also multiplied your harlotry with the land of merchants, Chaldea, yet even with this you were not satisfied.”’”

30“How 23languishing is your heart,” declares the Lord God, “while you do all these things, the actions of a 2425bold-faced harlot. 31When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every square, in 26disdaining money, you were not like a harlot. 32You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband! 3327Men give gifts to all harlots, but you 28give your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them to come to you from every direction for your harlotries. 34Thus you are different from those women in your harlotries, in that no one plays the harlot 29as you do, because you give money and no money is given you; thus you are different.”

35Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord.