16. You took some of your clothing to make colorful shrines and prostituted yourself in them.
17. You took the beautiful gold and silver jewelry that I had given to you, and you made male images for yourself and prostituted yourself with them.
18. You took your fine garments and clothed them. You set my oil and incense before them.
19. You set my food that I had given you to eat—fine wheat, oil, and honey—before them as a pleasing aroma. This is what the Lord God says.
20. You took your sons and daughters, which you had borne to me, and you sacrificed these to them so they could consume them. Was this promiscuity of yours a small thing?
21. You slaughtered my sons and placed them in the fire for them!
22. In all your detestable practices and promiscuities, you didn’t remember the days of your infancy when you lay completely naked, flailing about in your blood.
23. After all your wickedness—doom, doom to you, proclaims the Lord God—
24. you built a pavilion for yourself and set up platforms in every square.
25. At every crossroad you built your platform and degraded your beauty by spreading your legs to all comers. And so you encouraged even more promiscuity.
26. You prostituted yourself with the Egyptians, your neighbors with the large sexual organs, and as you added to your seductions, you provoked me to anger.
27. So I used my power against you, cut off your allowance, and gave you up to the passions of the Philistine women who had been confounded by your infamous ways and had rejected you.
28. Still not satisfied, you prostituted yourself to the Assyrians, but they weren’t enough for you either.
29. So you prostituted yourself with the Babylonians, the land of traders, but again you weren’t satisfied.
30. How sick was your heart—the Lord God proclaims—that you could do all these things, the deeds of a hardened prostitute.
31. But you weren’t like an ordinary prostitute! When you built your pavilion at the head of every street and made your platform in every square, you refused to be paid.
32. You are like an adulterous wife: you take in strangers instead of your husband.
33. Ordinary prostitutes are given gifts, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers. From every direction you even bribed them to come to you for your sexual favors.
34. As a prostitute, you were more perverse than other women. No one approached you for sexual favors, but you yourself gave gifts instead of receiving them. You are perversion itself!
35. Therefore, you prostitute, hear the Lord’s word!