Ezekiel 16:15-36

15“But you 1trusted in your beauty and 2became unfaithful because of your fame, and you poured out your 3obscene practices on every passer-by to whom it might be tempting. 16You took some of your clothes, made for yourself 4high places of various colors, and committed prostitution on them, which should not 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 so that you might commit prostitution with them. 18Then you took your colorfully woven 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“Furthermore, you took your sons and daughters whom you had borne to 9Me and 10sacrificed them to 11idols to be devoured. Were your obscene practices a trivial matter? 21You slaughtered 12My children and offered them to 13idols by 14making them pass through the fire. 22And besides all your abominations and obscene practices, 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 public square. 25You built yourself a high place at the beginning of 18every street and made your beauty abominable, and you spread your legs to every passer-by and multiplied your obscene practice. 26You also committed prostitution with the Egyptians, your 19lustful neighbors, and multiplied your obscene practice to 20provoke Me to anger. 27So behold, I have stretched out My hand against you and cut back your rations. And I turned you over to the desire of those who hate you, the 21daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your outrageous conduct. 28Moreover, you committed prostitution with the 22Assyrians because you were not satisfied; you committed prostitution with them and still were not satisfied. 29You also multiplied your obscene practice with the land of merchants, Chaldea; yet even with this you were not satisfied.”’”

30“How 23feverish is your heart,” declares the Lord God, “while you do all these things, the action of a 2425bold prostitute! 31When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every public square, in 26spurning a prostitute’s fee, you were not like a prostitute. 32You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband! 33Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you 27give your gifts to all your lovers and lavish favors on them so that they will come to you from every direction for your obscene practices. 34So it is the opposite for you from those women in your obscene practices, in that you are not approached for prostitution, and in the fact that you pay a prostitute’s fee, and no fee is paid to you; so you are the opposite.”

35Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the Lord. 36This is what the Lord God says: “Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your obscene practices with your lovers and with all your detestable 28idols, and because of the blood of your sons that you gave to 29idols,