Ezekiel 16:31

31 You 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.

Ezekiel 16:31 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 16:31

In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every
way Or brothel house, as before; (See Gill on Ezekiel 16:24); which showed her to be a whore, and an imperious one: and makest thine high place in every street;
(See Gill on Ezekiel 16:24); and hast not been as an harlot:
a common one, or as a harlot usually is: in that thou scornest hire;
which they do not; for it is for hire they prostitute themselves; and have their names, both in our language, and in the Latin tongue, from, thence.

Ezekiel 16:31 In-Context

29 You 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.

31 You 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.

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

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