Ezekiel 16:15-43

15“But you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to become a harlot. You poured out your enticements on everyone who passed by—they were his.

16You took your garments, made high places decked out with various colors and fornicated on them—this should not happen, it should not be!

17You also took your jewelry—My gold and My silver, which I gave you—made male images for yourself and committed harlotry with them.

18You took your embroidered garments, covered them and placed My oil and My incense before them.

19My bread that I gave you, fine flour, oil and honey that I fed you with, you set before them as a sweet aroma. That is what happened.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

20“You took your sons and your daughters whom you bore for Me, and sacrificed them to be eaten by them. Were your obscene practices not enough?

21You slaughtered My children, making them pass through fire for them.

22In all your abominations and harlotry, you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, kicking about in your blood.

23So it was after all your wickedness—oy, oy to you!” It is a declaration of Adonai.

24“Then you built a mound for yourself. You made a high place for yourself in every square.

25You built your lofty place at the head of every street. You made your beauty an abomination. You spread your legs for everyone passing by and multiplied your harlotry.

26You committed immorality with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors. You multiplied your prostitution, to provoke Me.

27“So behold, I stretched out My hand over you. I diminished your ration. I gave you over to those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your indecent conduct.

28Then you also played the harlot with the Assyrians, never being satisfied; you played the harlot with them, and still you were not satisfied.

29So you multiplied your harlotry toward the land of merchants—Chaldea—yet even with this, you were not satisfied.

30“How weak is your heart”—it is a declaration of Adonai Elohim—“while you are doing all these things, the work of a shameless harlot,

31when you build your mound at the head of every road and make your high place in every street. Yet you were not like a harlot, since you scoffed at receiving payment.

32You adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!

33To all prostitutes gifts are given—but you gave your gifts to all your lovers! You bribed them to come to you from every side in your harlotry.

34So you are the opposite of other women—no one runs after you for favors. You give payment and none is given to you. So you are the opposite!

35“Therefore, harlot, hear the word of Adonai!”

36Thus says Adonai Elohim: “Because your filth was poured out and your nakedness exposed through your harlotry with your lovers, because of all the idols of your abominations, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,

37therefore behold, I will gather all your lovers—those you have pleased and all those you have loved, with all them that you have hated. I will gather them against you from every side. I will expose your nakedness to them, so they may all see your nakedness.

38So I will judge you, as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged. Then I will bring on you the blood of fury and jealousy.

39I will give you into their hand. They will tear down your mound and break down your high places. They will strip you of your clothes and take your jewelry. They will leave you naked and bare.

40They will also incite an assembly against you, stone you with stones and thrust you through with their swords.

41They will set your houses on fire and execute judgment on you in the sight of many women. So I will cause you to stop your harlotry. You will never again pay for a lover.

42So I will calm My fury against you and My jealousy will turn away from you. Then I will be quiet and angry no longer.

43“Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but have enraged Me in all these things, behold, I will also bring your way on your head”—it is a declaration of Adonai. “Have you not committed this wickedness on top of all your abominations?