Ezekiel 16:24-43

24that you built yourself a 1shrine and made yourself a 2high place in every public square. 25You built yourself a high place at the beginning of 3every 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 4lustful neighbors, and multiplied your obscene practice to 5provoke 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 6daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your outrageous conduct. 28Moreover, you committed prostitution with the 7Assyrians 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 8feverish is your heart,” declares the Lord God, “while you do all these things, the action of a 910bold prostitute! 31When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every public square, in 11spurning 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 12give 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 13idols, and because of the blood of your sons that you gave to 14idols, 37therefore, behold, I am going to 15gather all your lovers whom you pleased, all those whom you loved as well as all those whom you 16hated. So I will gather them against you from every direction and 17expose your nakedness to them so that they may see all your nakedness. 38So I will 18judge you as women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of 19wrath and jealousy. 39I will also hand you over to 20your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, 21strip you of your clothing, take away your 22jewels, and will leave you naked and bare. 40They will 23incite a 24crowd against you, and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. 41And they will 25burn your houses with fire and execute judgments against you in the sight of many women. Then I will 26put an end to your prostitution, and you will also no longer pay 27your lovers. 42So I 28will satisfy My fury against you and My jealousy will leave you, and I will be pacified and 29no longer be angry. 43Since you have 30not remembered the days of your youth but 31have 32caused Me unrest by all these things, behold, I in turn will 33bring your conduct down on your own head,” declares the Lord God, “so that you will not commit this outrageous sin in addition to all your other abominations.