Catholic Public Domain Version

Ezekiel 16:23-33 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

23. And it happened that, after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you, says the Lord God)

24. you built for yourself a brothel, and you made for yourself a place of prostitution in every street.

25. At the head of every way, you set up a banner of your prostitution. And you caused your beauty to become abominable. And you distributed your feet to every passer-by. And you multiplied your fornications.

26. And you fornicated with the sons of Egypt, your neighbors, who have large bodies. And you multiplied your fornications, so as to provoke me.

27. Behold, I will extend my hand over you, and I will take away your justification. And I will give you to the souls of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your wicked way.

28. You also fornicated with the sons of the Assyrians, for you were not yet done. And after you fornicated, even then, you were not satisfied.

29. And you multiplied your fornications in the land of Canaan with the Chaldeans. And even then, you were not satisfied.

30. With what can I cleanse your heart, says the Lord God, since you do all these things, the works of a woman who is a shameless prostitute?

31. For you have built your brothel at the head of every way, and you have made your exalted place on every street. And you have not even been like a choosy prostitute, increasing her price,

32. but instead like a woman who is an adulteress, who prefers strangers to her own husband.

33. Wages are given to all prostitutes. But you have given wages to all your lovers, and you have given gifts to them, so that they would enter to you from every side, in order to fornicate with you.