Ezekiel 16:15-34 - Jerusalem Becomes A Prostitute
15 But you trusted your beauty. You used your fame to become a prostitute. You had sex with everyone who walked by. 16 You took some of your clothes and made your worship sites colorful. This is where you acted like a prostitute. Such things should not happen. They should not occur. 17 You took your beautiful gold and silver jewelry that I had given you and made male idols for yourself. Then you committed adultery with them. 18 You took off your embroidered clothes and covered the idols with them. You offered my olive oil and incense in their presence. 19 You also offered them sweet and fragrant sacrifices. You gave flour, olive oil, and honey-all the food that I gave you to eat. This is what happened,' declares the Lord Jehovah.
20 You took your sons and daughters, who belonged to me, and you sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough? 21 You slaughtered my children and presented them as burnt offerings to idols. 22 During your disgusting life as a prostitute you never once remembered your childhood, when you were naked, squirming in your own blood.'
23 The Lord Jehovah said: You are doomed! Doomed! You did all that evil, and then 24 by the side of every road you built places to worship idols and practice prostitution. 25 You dragged your beauty through the mud. You offered yourself to everyone who came by, and you were more of a prostitute every day. 26 You let your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, go to bed with you, and you used your prostitution to make me angry.
27 Now I have raised my hand to punish you and to take away your share of my blessing. I have handed you over to the Philistines, who hate you. They are also disgusted with your immoral actions. 28 The others did not satisfy you so you ran after the Assyrians. You were their prostitute, but they did not satisfy you either. 29 You were also a prostitute for the Babylonians, that nation of merchants, but they did not satisfy you either.
30 I, the Lord Jehovah am furious with you. You were so disgusting that you would have done anything to get what you wanted. 31 You had sex on every street corner, and when you finished, you refused to accept money. That is worse than being a prostitute! 32 You are an unfaithful wife who would rather have sex with strangers than with your own husband. 33 Prostitutes accept money for having sex, but you bribe men from everywhere to have sex with you. 34 You are not like other prostitutes. Men do not ask you for sex. You offer to pay them!