Contemporary English Version Anglicised

Ezekiel 16:10-28 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

10. I gave you the finest clothes and the most expensive robes, as well as sandals made from the best leather.

11. I gave you bracelets, a necklace,

12. a ring for your nose, some earrings, and a beautiful crown.

13. Your jewellery was gold and silver, and your clothes were made of only the finest material and embroidered linen. Your bread was baked from fine flour, and you ate honey and olive oil. You were as beautiful as a queen,

14. and everyone on earth knew it. I, the Lord God, had helped you become a lovely young woman.

15. You learnt that you were attractive enough to have any man you wanted, so you offered yourself to every passer-by.

16. You made shrines for yourself and decorated them with some of your clothes. That's where you took your visitors to have sex with them. These things should never have happened!

17. You made idols out of the gold and silver jewellery I gave you, then you sinned by worshipping those idols.

18. You dressed them in the clothes you got from me, and you offered them the olive oil and incense I gave you.

19. I supplied you with fine flour, olive oil, and honey, but you sacrificed it all as offerings to please those idols. I, the Lord God, watched this happen.

20. But you did something even worse than that—you sacrificed your own children to those idols!

21. You slaughtered my children, so you could offer them as sacrifices.

22. You were so busy sinning and being a prostitute that you refused to think about the days when you were young and were rolling around naked in your own blood.

23. Now I, the Lord God, say you are doomed! Not only did you do these evil things,

24. but you also built places on every street corner

25. where you disgraced yourself by having sex with anyone who walked by. And you did that more and more every day!

26. To make me angry, you even offered yourself to Egyptians, who were always ready to sleep with you.

27. So I punished you by letting those greedy Philistine enemies take over some of your territory. But even they were offended by your disgusting behaviour.

28. You couldn't get enough sex, so you chased after Assyrians and slept with them. You still weren't satisfied,