Ezekiel 16:15-34 - Jerusalem Becomes A Prostitute
15 But you trusted in your beauty, and played the harlot because of your name, and poured out your fornications on all who passed by; it was his. 16 And you took from your clothes and adorned your high places with different colors, and fornicated on them, such as had not come, nor shall be. 17 And you have taken beautiful things of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made images of males, and fornicated with them. 18 And you took your embroidered dresses and covered them, and you have given to their face My oil and My incense. 19 Also My food which I gave you, fine flour and oil and honey with which I fed you, you have given it to their face for a soothing aroma. And it happened, says the Lord Jehovah.
20 And you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to Me, and you gave these to them for food. Are your fornications small? 21 You have slaughtered My sons and gave them to cause these to pass through the fire for them. 22 And in all your hateful deeds and your fornications you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and squirming in your blood.
23 Woe, woe to you says the Lord Jehovah! For it happened after all your evil, 24 that you have also built yourself a mound, and you have made yourself a high place in every street. 25 You have built your high place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty to be despised, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and have multiplied your fornications. 26 You have also whored with the Egyptians, your neighbors great of flesh, and have multiplied your fornications to provoke Me to anger.
27 And, behold, therefore I have stretched out My hand over you, and drew back your portion. And I gave you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your wicked way. 28 You have whored with the Assyrians, without your being satisfied; yea, you whored and yet you were not satisfied. 29 And your whoredom is idolatry in the land of Canaan, to the Chaldean, and yet you were not satisfied with this.
30 How weak is your heart, says the Lord Jehovah, since you do all these, the work of a woman, an overbearing harlot; 31 in that you build your mound at the head of every way, and make your high place in every street. Yet you have not been as a harlot, scorning wages. 32 Like the adulterous wife, instead of her husband, she takes strangers. 33 They give a gift to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them to come to you from all around, for your fornication. 34 And in you was the opposite from those women in your fornications, since no one whores after you, and in your giving wages, and hire is not given to you. In this you are opposite.