9. “Then I took water and washed the blood off you. I rubbed olive oil on your skin.
10. I dressed you in embroidered gowns and gave you shoes of the best leather, a linen headband, and a silk cloak.
11. I put jewels on you — bracelets and necklaces.
12. I gave you a nose-ring and earrings and a beautiful crown to wear.
13. You had ornaments of gold and silver, and you always wore clothes of embroidered linen and silk. You ate bread made from the best flour, and had honey and olive oil to eat. Your beauty was dazzling, and you became a queen.
14. You became famous in every nation for your perfect beauty, because I was the one who made you so lovely.” This is what the Sovereign Lord says.
15. “But you took advantage of your beauty and fame to sleep with everyone who came along.
16. You used some of your clothes to decorate your places of worship, and just like a prostitute, you gave yourself to everyone.
17. You took the silver and gold jewellery that I had given you, used it to make male images, and committed adultery with them.
18. You took the embroidered clothes I gave you and put them on the images, and you offered to the images the olive oil and incense I had given you.
19. I gave you food — the best flour, olive oil, and honey — but you offered it as a sacrifice to win the favour of idols.” This is what the Sovereign Lord says.
20. “Then you took the sons and the daughters you had borne me and offered them as sacrifices to idols. Wasn't it bad enough to be unfaithful to me,
21. without taking my children and sacrificing them to idols?
22. During your disgusting life as a prostitute you never once remembered your childhood — when you were naked, squirming in your own blood.”
23. The Sovereign Lord said, “You are doomed! Doomed! You did all that evil, and then
24. by the side of every road you built places to worship idols and practise prostitution.
25. You dragged your beauty through the mud. You offered yourself to everyone who came by, and you were more of a prostitute every day.
26. You let your lustful neighbours, the Egyptians, go to bed with you, and you used your prostitution to make me angry.
27. “Now I have raised my hand to punish you and to take away your share of my blessing. I have handed you over to the Philistines, who hate you and are disgusted with your immoral actions.