Ezekiel 16:8-32

8“Then I passed by you and saw you, and behold, 1you were at the time for love; so I 2spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. I also 3swore to you and 4entered into a covenant with you so that you 5became Mine,” declares the Lord God. 9“Then I bathed you with water, washed off your blood from you and 6anointed you with oil. 10I also clothed you with 7embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk. 11I adorned you with ornaments, put 8bracelets on your hands and a 9necklace around your neck. 12I also put a 10ring in your nostril, earrings in your ears and a 11beautiful crown on your head. 13Thus you were adorned with 12gold and silver, and your dress was of fine linen, silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey and oil; so you were exceedingly beautiful and advanced to 13royalty. 14Then your 14fame went forth among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was 15perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on you,” declares the Lord God.

15“But you 16trusted in your beauty and 17played the harlot because of your fame, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by 18who might be willing. 16You took some of your clothes, made for yourself high places of various colors and played the harlot on them, 19which should never come about nor happen. 17You also took your beautiful 2021jewels 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 22My bread which I gave you, fine flour, oil and honey with which I fed you, 23you 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 24Me and 25sacrificed them to 26idols to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter? 21You slaughtered 27My children and offered them up to 28idols by 29causing them to pass through the fire. 22Besides all your abominations and harlotries you did not remember the days of 30your 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 31shrine and made yourself a 32high place in every square. 25You built yourself a high place at the top of 33every 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 34lustful neighbors, and multiplied your harlotry to 35make 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 36daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd conduct. 28Moreover, you played the harlot with the 37Assyrians 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 38languishing is your heart,” declares the Lord God, “while you do all these things, the actions of a 3940bold-faced harlot. 31When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every square, in 41disdaining money, you were not like a harlot. 32You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!