24. ‘And then you built for yourself a mound, and you made for yourself a high place in every public square.
25. At the head of every street you built your high place and you disgraced your beauty and you spread your feet for every passerby, and you increased your whoring.
26. And you prostituted with the Egyptians, your neighbors who were sexually aroused, and you increased your fornication to provoke me.
27. And look! I stretched out my hand against you, and I reduced your portion, and I gave you into the desire of your haters, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed because of your lewd conduct.
28. And you prostituted with the Assyrians on account of your insatiable lust, and you prostituted with them, and still you were not satisfied.
29. And you increased your fornication to the land of traders, to Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.
30. How hot with fever was your heart!’ declares the Lord Yahweh. ‘When you did all of these actions of a headstrong female prostitute,
31. when you built your mound at the head of every street and your high place you made on every street, yet you were not like a prostitute, as you were scorning your harlot’s wages.
32. O, adulterous woman! In the place of her husband she received strangers.
33. To all prostitutes they give a fee, but you, you gave your gifts to all of your lovers, and you bribed them to come to you from all around in your whorings!
34. And it was the opposite with you from the other women in your whorings; no one solicited you as a prostitute. You gave a harlot’s wages, and a harlot’s wages were not given to you, and so it was just the opposite.
35. “ ‘Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh.