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!
33. Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from all around for your sexual favors.
34. So you were the opposite of other women in your acts of prostitution; no one solicited you. When you paid a fee instead of one being paid to you, you were the opposite.
35. “Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the Lord!
36. This is what the Lord God says: Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness exposed by your acts of prostitution with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols and the blood of your children that you gave to them,
37. I am therefore going to gather all the lovers you pleased — all those you loved as well as all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose your nakedness to them so they see you completely naked.
38. I will judge you the way adulteresses and those who shed blood are judged. Then I will bring about your bloodshed in wrath and jealousy.
39. I will hand you over to them, and they will level your mounds and tear down your elevated places. They will strip off your clothes, take your beautiful jewelry, and leave you stark naked.
40. They will bring a mob against you to stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.