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.
27. So I punished you! I took away part of your land. I let your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, do what they wanted to you. Even they were shocked at the evil things you did.
28. Then you went to have sex with Assyria. You could not get enough. You were never satisfied.
29. So you turned to Canaan, and then to Babylonia, and still you were not satisfied.
30. You are so weak. You let all those men cause you to sin. You acted just like a prostitute who wants to be the one in control.” This is what the Lord GOD said.
31. God said, “But you were not exactly like a prostitute. You built your mounds at the head of every road, and you built your places for worship at every street corner. You had sex with all those men, but you did not ask them to pay you the way a prostitute does.
32. You are a woman guilty of adultery. You would rather have sex with strangers than with your own husband.