5. No one felt sorry for you or took care of you. On the day you were born, your parents threw you out into the field, because no one wanted you.
6. “‘Then I passed by. I saw you lying there, kicking in the blood. You were covered with blood, but I said, “Please live!” Yes, you were covered with blood, but I said, “Please live!”
7. I helped you grow like a plant in the field. You grew and grew. You became a young woman: your periods began, your breasts grew, and your hair began to grow. But you were still bare and naked.
8. I looked you over. I saw you were ready for love, so I spread my clothes over you and covered your nakedness. I promised to marry you. I made the agreement with you, and you became mine.’” This is what the Lord GOD said.
9. “‘I washed you in water. I poured water over you to wash away the blood that was on you, and then I put oil on your skin.
10. I gave you a nice dress and soft leather sandals, a linen headband, and a silk scarf.
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.