Contemporary English Version Anglicised

Ezekiel 16:26-35 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

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,

29. so you went after Babylonians. But those merchants could not satisfy you either.

30. I, the Lord God, say that you were so disgusting that you would have done anything to get what you wanted.

31. You had sex on every street corner, and when you finished, you refused to accept money. That's worse than being a prostitute!

32. You are nothing but an unfaithful wife who would rather have sex with strangers than with your own husband.

33. Prostitutes accept money for having sex, but you bribe men from everywhere to have sex with you.

34. You're not like other prostitutes. Men don't ask you for sex—you offer to pay them!

35. Jerusalem, you prostitute, listen to me.