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.
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 practise prostitution. But you are not out for money like a common prostitute.
32. You are like a woman who commits adultery with strangers instead of loving her husband.
33. A prostitute is paid, but you gave presents to all your lovers and bribed them to come from everywhere to sleep with you.
34. You are a special kind of prostitute. No one forced you to become one. You didn't get paid; you paid them! Yes, you are different.”
35. Now then, Jerusalem, you whore! Hear what the Lord is saying.