^{15 Ref} But thou didst trust in thy beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy whoredoms on every one that passed by; his it was.

^{16 Ref} And thou didst take of thy garments, and madest for thee high places decked with divers colors, and playedst the harlot upon them: `the like things' shall not come, neither shall it be `so'.

^{17 Ref} Thou didst also take thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest for thee images of men, and didst play the harlot with them;

¹⁸ and thou tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them, and didst set mine oil and mine incense before them.

^{19 Ref} My bread also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou didst even set it before them for a sweet savor; and `thus' it was, saith the Lord Jehovah.

^{20 Ref} Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Were thy whoredoms a small matter,

^{21 Ref} that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through `the fire' unto them?

^{22 Ref} And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast weltering in thy blood.

^{23 Ref} And it is come to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord Jehovah,)

^{24 Ref} that thou hast built unto thee a vaulted place, and hast made thee a lofty place in every street.

^{25 Ref} Thou hast built thy lofty place at the head of every way, and hast made thy beauty an abomination, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredom.

^{26 Ref} Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians, thy neighbors, great of flesh; and hast multiplied thy whoredom, to provoke me to anger.