Ezekiel 16:15-36

15“But you thought your fame and beauty were your own. So you gave yourself as a prostitute to every man who came along. Your beauty was theirs for the asking.

16You used the lovely things I gave you to make shrines for idols, where you played the prostitute. Unbelievable! How could such a thing ever happen?

17You took the very jewels and gold and silver ornaments I had given you and made statues of men and worshiped them. This is adultery against me!

18You used the beautifully embroidered clothes I gave you to dress your idols. Then you used my special oil and my incense to worship them.

19Imagine it! You set before them as a sacrifice the choice flour, olive oil, and honey I had given you, says the Sovereign Lord.

20“Then you took your sons and daughters—the children you had borne to me—and sacrificed them to your gods. Was your prostitution not enough?

21Must you also slaughter my children by sacrificing them to idols?

22In all your years of adultery and detestable sin, you have not once remembered the days long ago when you lay naked in a field, kicking about in your own blood.

23“What sorrow awaits you, says the Sovereign Lord. In addition to all your other wickedness,

24you built a pagan shrine and put altars to idols in every town square.

25On every street corner you defiled your beauty, offering your body to every passerby in an endless stream of prostitution.

26Then you added lustful Egypt to your lovers, provoking my anger with your increasing promiscuity.

27That is why I struck you with my fist and reduced your boundaries. I handed you over to your enemies, the Philistines, and even they were shocked by your lewd conduct.

28You have prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, too. It seems you can never find enough new lovers! And after your prostitution there, you still were not satisfied.

29You added to your lovers by embracing Babylonia, the land of merchants, but you still weren’t satisfied.

30“What a sick heart you have, says the Sovereign Lord, to do such things as these, acting like a shameless prostitute.

31You build your pagan shrines on every street corner and your altars to idols in every square. In fact, you have been worse than a prostitute, so eager for sin that you have not even demanded payment.

32Yes, you are an adulterous wife who takes in strangers instead of her own husband.

33Prostitutes charge for their services—but not you! You give gifts to your lovers, bribing them to come and have sex with you.

34So you are the opposite of other prostitutes. You pay your lovers instead of their paying you!

35“Therefore, you prostitute, listen to this message from the Lord!

36This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you have poured out your lust and exposed yourself in prostitution to all your lovers, and because you have worshiped detestable idols, and because you have slaughtered your children as sacrifices to your gods,