King James 2000

Ezekiel 16:14-32 King James 2000 (KJ2000)

14. And your renown went forth among the nations for your beauty: for it was perfect through my splendor, which I had put upon you, says the Lord GOD.

15. But you did trust in your own beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and poured out your harlotry on every one that passed by; his it was.

16. And of your garments you did take, and adorned your high places with various colors, and played the harlot on them: the like things have never been, neither shall be.

17. You have also taken your fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made to yourself images of men, and did commit harlotry with them,

18. And took your embroidered garments, and covered them: and you have set my oil and my incense before them.

19. My food also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you have even set it before them for a sweet aroma: and thus it was, says the Lord GOD.

20. Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne unto me, and these have you sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this act of your harlotries a small matter,

21. That you have slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?

22. And in all your abominations and your harlotries you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were polluted in your blood.

23. And it came to pass after all your wickedness, (woe, woe unto you! says the Lord GOD;)

24. That you have also built unto you an eminent place, and have made yourself a high place in every street.

25. You have built your high place at the head of every street, and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have offered yourself to everyone that passed by, and multiplied your harlotries.

26. You have also played the harlot with the Egyptians your neighbors, strong in lust; and have increased your harlotries, to provoke me to anger.

27. Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your allowance of food, and delivered you unto the will of them that hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.

28. You have played the harlot also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yea, you have played the harlot with them, and yet could not be satisfied.

29. You have moreover multiplied your harlotry with trading in the land of Chaldea; and yet you were not satisfied with this.

30. How weak is your heart, says the Lord GOD, seeing you do all these things, the work of a brazen harlot;

31. In that you build your shrine at the head of every street, and make your high place in every street; and have not been as a harlot, in that you scorned payment;

32. But as a wife that commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!