Ezekiel 16:15-34

15 a“But you trusted in your beauty band played the whore
Or were unfaithful; also verses 16, 17, 26, 28
because of your renown dand lavished your whorings
Or unfaithfulness; also verses 20, 22, 25, 26, 29, 33, 34, 36
on any passerby; your beauty
Hebrew it
became his.
16You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.
The meaning of this Hebrew sentence is uncertain
17You also took hyour beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and imade for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore. 18And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, jand set my oil and my incense before them. 19 kAlso my bread that I gave you— lI fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for ma pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord God. 20 nAnd you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and othese you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter 21that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them? 22And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember pthe days of your youth, qwhen you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.

23“And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord God), 24you built yourself ra vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square. 25At the head of every street syou built your lofty place and made tyour beauty an abomination, uoffering yourself
Hebrew spreading your legs
to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.
26 wYou also played the whore xwith the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, ymultiplying your whoring, zto provoke me to anger. 27Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you aaand diminished your allotted portion aband delivered you to the greed of your enemies, acthe daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. 28 adYou played the whore also aewith the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied. 29You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land afof Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.

30How sick is your heart,
Revocalization yields  How I am filled with anger against you
declares the Lord God, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute,
31building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, ahbecause you scorned payment. 32Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband! 33Men give gifts to all prostitutes, aibut you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings. 34So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and ajyou gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different.

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