20. “And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you slaughtered as food to them. Were your whorings a small matter,
21. that you have slain My children and gave them up to them by causing them to pass through the fire?
22. “And in all your abominations and whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, trampled down in your blood.
23. “Then it came to be after all your evil – ‘Woe, woe to you!’ declares the Master יהוה –
24. that you also built an arched place for yourself, and made a high place in every street for yourself.
25. “You built your high places at the head of every way, and made your loveliness to be loathed. And you parted your feet to everyone who passed by, and increased your whorings.
26. “And you whored with the sons of Mitsrayim, your neighbours, great of flesh. And you increased your whorings to provoke Me.
27. “And see, I have stretched out My hand against you, and withdrew your portion, and gave you up to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your wicked way.
28. “And you whored with the sons of Ashshur, without being satisfied. And you whored with them and still were not satisfied.
29. “And you increased your whorings as far as the land of traders, Chaldea, and even then you were not satisfied.
30. “How weak is your heart!” declares the Master יהוה, “seeing you do all this, the deeds of a shameless whore.
31. “You built your arched place at the head of every way, and built your high place in every street. Yet you were unlike a whore, you scorned payment!
32. “The wife who commits adultery who takes strangers instead of her husband!
33. “To all whores they give gifts, but you gave gifts to all your lovers, and bribed them to come to you from all around in your whorings.
34. “Thus you are different from other women in your whorings, because no one whores after you, and in you giving a gift, while a gift was not given to you. Thus you are different.”
35. ‘Therefore, O whore, hear the word of יהוה!