Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version

Ezekiel 16:11-26 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

11. I also gave you some jewelry. I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace around your neck.

12. I gave you a nose ring, earrings, and a beautiful crown to wear.

13. You were beautiful in your gold and silver jewelry, and your linen, silk, and embroidered material. You ate the best foods. You were very, very beautiful, and you became the queen!

14. You became famous for your beauty, all because I made you so lovely!’” This is what the Lord GOD said.

15. “But you began to trust in your beauty. You used the good name you had and became unfaithful to me. You acted like a prostitute with every man who passed by. You gave yourself to them all!

16. You took your beautiful clothes and used them to decorate your places for worship. And you acted like a prostitute there. You gave yourself to every man who came by!

17. Then you took your beautiful jewelry that I gave you, and you used the gold and silver to make statues of men, and you had sex with them too!

18. Then you took the beautiful cloth and made clothes for those statues. You took the perfume and incense I gave you and put it in front of those idols.

19. I gave you bread, honey, and oil, but you gave that food to your idols. You offered them as a sweet smell to please your false gods. You acted like a prostitute with those false gods!” This is what the Lord GOD said.

20. “You and I had children together, but you took our children. You killed them and gave them to those false gods! But that is only some of the evil things you did when you were unfaithful to me and went to those false gods.

21. You slaughtered my sons and then passed them through the fire to those false gods.

22. You left me and did all those terrible things. You never remembered what happened when you were young. You did not remember that you were naked and kicking in blood when I found you.

23. “After all these evil things, … it will be very bad for you!” The Lord GOD said all these things.

24. “After all those things, you made a mound for worshiping that false god. You built those places for worshiping false gods on every street corner.

25. You built your mounds at the head of every road. Then you degraded your beauty. You used it to catch every man who walked by. You raised your skirt so that they could see your legs, and you acted like a prostitute with those men.

26. Then you went to Egypt, your neighbor that is always ready for sex. With more and more sexual sin, you made me angry.