New American Bible, Revised Edition

Ezekiel 16:33-47 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

33. Prostitutes usually receive gifts. But you bestowed gifts on all your lovers, bribing them to come to you for prostitution from every side.

34. Thus in your prostitution you were different from any other woman. No one solicited you for prostitution. Instead, you yourself offered payment; what a reversal!

35. Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of the Lord!

36. Thus says the Lord God: Because you poured out your lust and exposed your nakedness in your prostitution with your lovers and your abominable idols, because you gave the life-blood of your children to them,

37. therefore, I will now gather together all your lovers with whom you found pleasure, both those you loved and those you hated; I will gather them against you from all sides and expose you naked for them to see.

38. I will inflict on you the sentence of adultery and murder; I will bring on you bloody wrath and jealous anger.

39. I will hand you over to them to tear down your platform and demolish your high place, to strip you of your garments and take away your splendid ornaments, leaving you stark naked.

40. They shall lead an assembly against you to stone you and hack you to pieces with their swords.

41. They shall set fire to your homes and inflict punishments on you while many women watch. Thus I will put an end to your prostitution, and you shall never again offer payment.

42. When I have spent my fury upon you I will stop being jealous about you, and calm down, no longer angry.

43. Because you did not remember the days of your youth but enraged me with all these things, see, I am bringing down your ways upon your head—oracle of the Lord God. Have you not added depravity to your other abominations?

44. See, everyone who makes proverbs will make this proverb about you, “Like mother, like daughter.”

45. Yes, you are truly the daughter of your mother who rejected her husband and children: you are truly a sister to your sisters who rejected their husbands and children—your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

46. Your elder sister was Samaria with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister was Sodom and her daughters, south of you.

47. Not only did you walk in their ways and act as abominably as they did, but in a very short time you became more corrupt in all your ways than they were.