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!
36. ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “Because your copper was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with the idols of your abominations, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them,
37. therefore, see, I am gathering all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved, with all those you hated. And I shall gather them from all around against you and shall uncover your nakedness to them, and they shall see all your nakedness.
38. “And I shall judge you with judgments of adulteresses and shedders of blood. And I shall bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
39. “And I shall give you into their hand, and they shall throw your arched place down, and they shall break down your high places. And they shall strip you of your garments, and they shall take your splendid adornments, and leave you naked and bare.
40. “And they shall bring up an assembly against you, and they shall stone you with stones and thrust you through with their swords,
41. and burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you before the eyes of many women. And I shall make you stop whoring, and no longer give gifts.
42. “So I shall bring My wrath to rest upon you, and My jealousy shall turn away from you. And I shall be calm, and no longer be vexed.
43. “Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but troubled Me with all this, so see, I shall also bring your way on your own head,” declares the Master יהוה. “And shall I not do this thought for all your abominations?
44. “See, all who use proverbs shall use this proverb against you, ‘Like mother, like daughter!’
45. “You are your mother’s daughter, who despises her husband and her children. And you are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Ḥittite and your father an Amorite.
46. “And your elder sister is Shomeron, she and her daughters, who is dwelling to the north of you. And your younger sister, who is dwelling to the south of you, is Seḏom and her daughters.
47. “And have you not walked in their ways and did according to their abominations? But in all your ways you soon became more corrupt than they.