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Ezekiel 16:11-30 New English Translation (NET)

11. I adorned you with jewelry. I put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck.

12. I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

13. You were adorned with gold and silver, while your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidery. You ate the finest flour, honey, and olive oil. You became extremely beautiful and attained the position of royalty.

14. Your fame spread among the nations because of your beauty; your beauty was perfect because of the splendor which I bestowed on you, declares the sovereign Lord.

15. “‘But you trusted in your beauty and capitalized on your fame by becoming a prostitute. You offered your sexual favors to every man who passed by so that your beauty became his.

16. You took some of your clothing and made for yourself decorated high places; you engaged in prostitution on them. You went to him to become his.

17. You also took your beautiful jewelry, made of my gold and my silver I had given to you, and made for yourself male images and engaged in prostitution with them.

18. You took your embroidered clothing and used it to cover them; you offered my olive oil and my incense to them.

19. As for my food that I gave you – the fine flour, olive oil, and honey I fed you – you placed it before them as a soothing aroma. That is exactly what happened, declares the sovereign Lord.

20. “‘You took your sons and your daughters whom you bore to me and you sacrificed them as food for the idols to eat. As if your prostitution not enough,

21. you slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.

22. And with all your abominable practices and prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, kicking around in your blood.

23. “‘After all of your evil – “Woe! Woe to you!” declares the sovereign Lord –

24. you built yourself a chamber and put up a pavilion in every public square.

25. At the head of every street you erected your pavilion and you disgraced your beauty when you spread your legs to every passerby and multiplied your promiscuity.

26. You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your sexually aroused neighbors, multiplying your promiscuity and provoking me to anger.

27. So see here, I have stretched out my hand against you and cut off your rations. I have delivered you into the power of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed by your obscene conduct.

28. You engaged in prostitution with the Assyrians because your sexual desires were insatiable; you prostituted yourself with them and yet you were still not satisfied.

29. Then you multiplied your promiscuity to the land of merchants, Babylonia, but you were not satisfied there either.

30. “‘How sick is your heart, declares the sovereign Lord, when you perform all of these acts, the deeds of a bold prostitute.

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