27. So I used my power against you, cut off your allowance, and gave you up to the passions of the Philistine women who had been confounded by your infamous ways and had rejected you.
28. Still not satisfied, you prostituted yourself to the Assyrians, but they weren’t enough for you either.
29. So you prostituted yourself with the Babylonians, the land of traders, but again you weren’t satisfied.
30. How sick was your heart—the Lord God proclaims—that you could do all these things, the deeds of a hardened prostitute.
31. But you weren’t like an ordinary prostitute! When you built your pavilion at the head of every street and made your platform in every square, you refused to be paid.
32. You are like an adulterous wife: you take in strangers instead of your husband.
33. Ordinary prostitutes are given gifts, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers. From every direction you even bribed them to come to you for your sexual favors.
34. As a prostitute, you were more perverse than other women. No one approached you for sexual favors, but you yourself gave gifts instead of receiving them. You are perversion itself!
35. Therefore, you prostitute, hear the Lord’s word!
36. The Lord God proclaims: You were in a constant state of arousal and exposed yourself when you acted like a prostitute with your lovers and with the idols to which you gave your children’s blood.
37. Therefore, I will now gather all of your lovers whom you pleased, the ones you loved and the ones you rejected. I will gather them against you from all around, and I will expose you to them. They will see it all.
38. I will convict you of adultery and murder, and I will hand you over in bloody fury and zeal.
39. I will hand you over to them, and they will tear down your pavilion and destroy your platforms. They will strip you of your garments, take your beautiful jewels, and they will leave you completely naked.
40. They will bring an army against you, pelt you with stones, and slaughter you with their swords.
41. They will burn down your houses and execute judgments against you in the sight of many women. I will bring an end to your prostitution; indeed, you will never again give payment.
42. When I’ve satisfied my anger, and my rage has turned away from you, I will be calm and no longer angry.
43. Because you didn’t remember your youthful days, and infuriated me with all these things, I will hold you accountable for what you’ve done. This is what the Lord God says.Have you not added bad reputation to all your detestable acts?
44. Now everyone who speaks in proverbs will say this about you: "Like mother, like daughter."