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.
32. Yes, you are an adulterous wife who takes in strangers instead of her own husband.
33. Prostitutes charge for their services—but not you! You give gifts to your lovers, bribing them to come and have sex with you.
34. So you are the opposite of other prostitutes. You pay your lovers instead of their paying you!
35. “Therefore, you prostitute, listen to this message from the lord!
36. This is what the Sovereign lord says: Because you have poured out your lust and exposed yourself in prostitution to all your lovers, and because you have worshiped detestable idols, and because you have slaughtered your children as sacrifices to your gods,
37. this is what I am going to do. I will gather together all your allies—the lovers with whom you have sinned, both those you loved and those you hated—and I will strip you naked in front of them so they can stare at you.
38. I will punish you for your murder and adultery. I will cover you with blood in my jealous fury.
39. Then I will give you to these many nations who are your lovers, and they will destroy you. They will knock down your pagan shrines and the altars to your idols. They will strip you and take your beautiful jewels, leaving you stark naked.
40. They will band together in a mob to stone you and cut you up with swords.
41. They will burn your homes and punish you in front of many women. I will stop your prostitution and end your payments to your many lovers.
42. “Then at last my fury against you will be spent, and my jealous anger will subside. I will be calm and will not be angry with you anymore.
43. But first, because you have not remembered your youth but have angered me by doing all these evil things, I will fully repay you for all of your sins, says the Sovereign lord. For you have added lewd acts to all your detestable sins.