36. This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “You stripped off your clothes and, like a prostitute, you gave yourself to your lovers and to all your disgusting idols, and you killed your children as sacrifices to idols.
37. Because of this I will bring all your former lovers together — the ones you liked and the ones you hated. I will bring them round you in a circle, and then I will strip off your clothes and let them see you naked.
38. I will condemn you for adultery and murder, and in my anger and fury I will punish you with death.
39. I will put you in their power, and they will tear down the places where you engage in prostitution and worship idols. They will take away your clothes and jewels and leave you completely naked.
40. “They will stir up a crowd to stone you, and they will cut you to pieces with their swords.
41. They will burn your houses down and let crowds of women see your punishment. I will make you stop being a prostitute and make you stop giving gifts to your lovers.
42. Then my anger will be over, and I will be calm. I will not be angry or jealous any more.
43. You have forgotten how I treated you when you were young, and you have made me angry by all the things you did. That is why I have made you pay for them all. Why did you add sexual immorality to all the other disgusting things you did?” The Sovereign Lord has spoken.
44. The Lord said, “People will use this proverb about you, Jerusalem: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
45. You really are your mother's daughter. She detested her husband and her children. You are like your sisters, who hated their husbands and their children. You and your sister cities had a Hittite mother and an Amorite father.