19. I gave you food — the best flour, olive oil, and honey — but you offered it as a sacrifice to win the favour of idols.” This is what the Sovereign Lord says.
20. “Then you took the sons and the daughters you had borne me and offered them as sacrifices to idols. Wasn't it bad enough to be unfaithful to me,
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 practise 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 neighbours, 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.