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.
36. You chased after lovers, then took off your clothes and had sex. You even worshipped disgusting idols and sacrificed your own children as offerings to them.
37. So I, the Lord God, will gather every one of your lovers, those you liked and those you hated. They will stand around you, and I will rip off your clothes and let all those lovers stare at your nakedness.
38. I will find you guilty of being an unfaithful wife and a murderer, and in my fierce anger I will sentence you to death!
39. Then I will hand you over to your lovers, who will tear down the places where you had sex. They will take your clothes and jewellery, leaving you naked and empty-handed.
40. Your lovers and an angry mob will stone you to death; they will cut your dead body into pieces
41. and burn down your houses. Other women will watch these terrible things happen to you. I promise to stop you from being a prostitute and paying your lovers for sex.
42. Only then will I calm down and stop being angry and jealous.
43. You made me furious by doing all these disgusting things and by forgetting how I took care of you when you were young. Then you made things worse by acting like a prostitute. You must be punished! I, the Lord God, have spoken.
44. People will use this saying about you, Jerusalem: “If the mother is bad, so is her daughter.”
45. You are just like your mother, who hated her husband and her own children. You are also like your sisters, who hated their husbands and children. Your father was an Amorite, and your mother was a Hittite.
46. Your elder sister was Samaria, that city to your north with her nearby villages. Your younger sister was Sodom, that city to your south with her nearby villages.
47. You followed their way of life and their wicked customs, and soon you were more disgusting than they were.