Holman Christian Standard Bible

Ezekiel 16:10-20 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

10. I clothed you in embroidered cloth and provided you with leather sandals. I also wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.

11. I adorned you with jewelry, putting bracelets on your wrists and a chain around your neck.

12. I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful tiara on your head.

13. So you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was made of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You became extremely beautiful and attained royalty.

14. Your fame spread among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through My splendor, which I had bestowed on you.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

15. “But you were confident in your beauty and acted like a prostitute because of your fame. You lavished your sexual favors on everyone who passed by. Your beauty became his.

16. You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and you engaged in prostitution on them. These places should not have been built, and this should never have happened!

17. You also took your beautiful jewelry made from the gold and silver I had given you, and you made male images so that you could engage in prostitution with them.

18. Then you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set My oil and incense before them.

19. You also set before them as a pleasing aroma the food I gave you — the fine flour, oil, and honey that I fed you. That is what happened.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

20. “You even took your sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them to these images as food. Wasn’t your prostitution enough?