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Ezekiel 16:28-39 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

28. Moreover, you played the harlot with the Assyrians because you were not satisfied; you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied.

29. You also multiplied your harlotry with the land of merchants, Chaldea, yet even with this you were not satisfied."'"

30. "How languishing is your heart," declares the Lord God, "while you do all these things, the actions of a bold-faced harlot.

31. When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every square, in disdaining money, you were not like a harlot.

32. You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

33. Men give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them to come to you from every direction for your harlotries.

34. Thus you are different from those women in your harlotries, in that no one plays the harlot as you do, because you give money and no money is given you; thus you are different."

35. Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord.

36. Thus says the Lord God, "Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your harlotries with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your sons which you gave to idols,

37. therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, even all those whom you loved and all those whom you hated. So I will gather them against you from every direction and expose your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness.

38. Thus I will judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

39. I will also give you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and will leave you naked and bare.

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