Ezekiel 16:21-31

21 without taking my children and sacrificing them 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 Sovereign Lord 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 and are disgusted with your immoral actions.
28 "Because you were not satisfied by the others, you went running after the Assyrians. You were their prostitute, but they didn't satisfy you either.
29 You were also a prostitute for the Babylonians, that nation of merchants, but they didn't satisfy you either."
30 This is what the Sovereign Lord is saying: "You have done all this like a shameless prostitute.
31 On every street you built places to worship idols and practice prostitution. But you are not out for money like a common prostitute.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. [Verse 30 in Hebrew begins with three words, the meaning of which is unclear.]
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.