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?
21. You slaughtered My children and gave them up when you passed them through the fire to the images.
22. In all your detestable practices and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were stark naked and lying in your blood.
23. “Then after all your evil — Woe, woe to you! ” — the declaration of the Lord God —
24. “you built yourself a mound and made yourself an elevated place in every square.
25. You built your elevated place at the head of every street and turned your beauty into a detestable thing. You spread your legs to everyone who passed by and increased your prostitution.
26. You engaged in promiscuous acts with Egyptian men, your well-endowed neighbors, and increased your prostitution to provoke Me to anger.