14. Your fame soon spread throughout the world because of your beauty. I dressed you in my splendor and perfected your beauty, says the Sovereign lord.
15. “But you thought your fame and beauty were your own. So you gave yourself as a prostitute to every man who came along. Your beauty was theirs for the asking.
16. You used the lovely things I gave you to make shrines for idols, where you played the prostitute. Unbelievable! How could such a thing ever happen?
17. You took the very jewels and gold and silver ornaments I had given you and made statues of men and worshiped them. This is adultery against me!
18. You used the beautifully embroidered clothes I gave you to dress your idols. Then you used my special oil and my incense to worship them.
19. Imagine it! You set before them as a sacrifice the choice flour, olive oil, and honey I had given you, says the Sovereign lord.
20. “Then you took your sons and daughters—the children you had borne to me—and sacrificed them to your gods. Was your prostitution not enough?
21. Must you also slaughter my children by sacrificing them to idols?
22. In all your years of adultery and detestable sin, you have not once remembered the days long ago when you lay naked in a field, kicking about in your own blood.
23. “What sorrow awaits you, says the Sovereign lord. In addition to all your other wickedness,
24. you built a pagan shrine and put altars to idols in every town square.
25. On every street corner you defiled your beauty, offering your body to every passerby in an endless stream of prostitution.
26. Then you added lustful Egypt to your lovers, provoking my anger with your increasing promiscuity.
27. That is why I struck you with my fist and reduced your boundaries. I handed you over to your enemies, the Philistines, and even they were shocked by your lewd conduct.
28. You have prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, too. It seems you can never find enough new lovers! And after your prostitution there, you still were not satisfied.
29. You added to your lovers by embracing Babylonia, the land of merchants, but you still weren’t satisfied.
30. “What a sick heart you have, says the Sovereign lord, to do such things as these, acting like a shameless prostitute.
31. You build your pagan shrines on every street corner and your altars to idols in every square. In fact, you have been worse than a prostitute, so eager for sin that you have not even demanded payment.