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 3garment over you and covered your nakedness. I also 4swore an oath to you and 5entered into a covenant with you so that you 6became Mine,” declares the Lord God. 9“Then I bathed you with water, washed off your blood from you, and 7anointed you with oil. 10I also clothed you with 8colorfully woven cloth and put sandals of 9fine leather on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk. 11I adorned you with jewelry, put 10bracelets on your wrists, and a 11necklace around your neck. 12I also put a 12ring in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a 13beautiful crown on your head. 13So you were adorned with 14gold and silver, and your dress was of fine linen, silk, and colorfully woven cloth. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil; so you were exceedingly beautiful and advanced to 15royalty. 14Then your 16fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was 17perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on you,” declares the Lord God.

15“But you 18trusted in your beauty and 19became unfaithful because of your fame, and you poured out your 20obscene practices on every passer-by to whom it might be tempting. 16You took some of your clothes, made for yourself 21high places of various colors, and committed prostitution on them, which should not come about nor happen. 17You also took your beautiful 2223jewels 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 24My bread which I gave you, fine flour, oil, and honey with which I fed you, 25you 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 26Me and 27sacrificed them to 28idols to be devoured. Were your obscene practices a trivial matter? 21You slaughtered 29My children and offered them to 30idols by 31making them pass through the fire. 22And besides all your abominations and obscene practices, you did not remember the days of 32your 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 33shrine and made yourself a 34high place in every public square. 25You built yourself a high place at the beginning of 35every 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 36lustful neighbors, and multiplied your obscene practice to 37provoke 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 38daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your outrageous conduct. 28Moreover, you committed prostitution with the 39Assyrians 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 40feverish is your heart,” declares the Lord God, “while you do all these things, the action of a 4142bold prostitute! 31When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every public square, in 43spurning a prostitute’s fee, you were not like a prostitute. 32You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!