Holman Christian Standard Bible

Ezekiel 16:21-32 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

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.

27. “Therefore, I stretched out My hand against you and reduced your provisions. I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the Philistine women, who were embarrassed by your indecent behavior.

28. Then you engaged in prostitution with the Assyrian men because you were not satisfied. Even though you did this with them, you were still not satisfied.

29. So you extended your prostitution to Chaldea, the land of merchants, but you were not even satisfied with this!

30. “How your heart was inflamed with lust” — the declaration of the Lord God — “when you did all these things, the acts of a brazen prostitute,

31. building your mound at the head of every street and making your elevated place in every square. But you were unlike a prostitute because you scorned payment.

32. You adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!