19. My bread that I gave you, fine flour, oil and honey that I fed you with, you set before them as a sweet aroma. That is what happened.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
20. “You took your sons and your daughters whom you bore for Me, and sacrificed them to be eaten by them. Were your obscene practices not enough?
21. You slaughtered My children, making them pass through fire for them.
22. In all your abominations and harlotry, you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, kicking about in your blood.
23. So it was after all your wickedness—oy, oy to you!” It is a declaration of Adonai.
24. “Then you built a mound for yourself. You made a high place for yourself in every square.
25. You built your lofty place at the head of every street. You made your beauty an abomination. You spread your legs for everyone passing by and multiplied your harlotry.
26. You committed immorality with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors. You multiplied your prostitution, to provoke Me.
27. “So behold, I stretched out My hand over you. I diminished your ration. I gave you over to those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your indecent conduct.
28. Then you also played the harlot with the Assyrians, never being satisfied; you played the harlot with them, and still you were not satisfied.
29. So you multiplied your harlotry toward the land of merchants—Chaldea—yet even with this, you were not satisfied.
30. “How weak is your heart”—it is a declaration of Adonai Elohim—“while you are doing all these things, the work of a shameless harlot,
31. when you build your mound at the head of every road and make your high place in every street. Yet you were not like a harlot, since you scoffed at receiving payment.
32. You adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
33. To all prostitutes gifts are given—but you gave your gifts to all your lovers! You bribed them to come to you from every side in your harlotry.
34. So you are the opposite of other women—no one runs after you for favors. You give payment and none is given to you. So you are the opposite!
35. “Therefore, harlot, hear the word of Adonai!”
36. Thus says Adonai Elohim: “Because your filth was poured out and your nakedness exposed through your harlotry with your lovers, because of all the idols of your abominations, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,