Ezekiel 16:8-32

8“Again I passed by and saw you, and behold, you were truly at the time of love. I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness. I swore to you and entered into a covenant with you,” says Adonai. “So you became Mine.

9Then I washed you with water, rinsed off your blood from on you and anointed you with oil.

10I clothed you with embroidery and put sandals of fine leather on you. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.

11I adorned you with jewelry, put bracelets on your hands and a necklace on your neck.

12I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears and a crown of glory on your head.

13So you were adorned with gold and silver, and your raiment was of fine linen, silk and embroidery. You ate fine flour, honey and oil. You became exceedingly beautiful, and advanced to the kingdom.

14Your fame spread among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect, through My splendor, which I bestowed on you.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

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!