New American Bible, Revised Edition

Ezekiel 16:11-28 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

11. I adorned you with jewelry, putting bracelets on your arms, a necklace about your neck,

12. a ring in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

13. Thus you were adorned with gold and silver; your garments made of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. Fine flour, honey, and olive oil were your food. You were very, very beautiful, fit for royalty.

14. You were renowned among the nations for your beauty, perfected by the splendor I showered on you—oracle of the Lord God.

15. But you trusted in your own beauty and used your renown to serve as a prostitute. You poured out your prostitution on every passerby—let it be his.

16. You took some of your garments and made for yourself gaudy high places, where you served as a prostitute. It has never happened before, nor will it happen again!

17. You took the splendid gold and silver ornaments that I had given you and made for yourself male images and served as a prostitute with them.

18. You took your embroidered garments to cover them; my oil and my incense you set before them;

19. the food I had given you, the fine flour, the oil, and the honey with which I fed you, you set before them as a pleasant odor, says the Lord God.

20. The sons and daughters you bore for me you took and offered as sacrifices for them to devour! Was it not enough that you had become a prostitute?

21. You slaughtered and immolated my children to them, making them pass through fire.

22. In all your abominations and prostitutions you did not remember the days of your youth when you were stark naked, struggling in your blood.

23. Then after all your evildoing—woe, woe to you! oracle of the Lord God—

24. you built yourself a platform and raised up a dais in every public place.

25. At every intersection you built yourself a dais so that you could degrade your beauty by spreading your legs for every passerby, multiplying your prostitutions.

26. You served as a prostitute with the Egyptians, your big-membered neighbors, and multiplied your prostitutions to provoke me.

27. Therefore I stretched out my hand against you and reduced your allotment, and delivered you over to the whim of your enemies, the Philistines, who were revolted by your depraved conduct.

28. You also served as a prostitute for the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied. Even after serving as a prostitute for them, you were still not satisfied.