^{15 Ref} But you did trust in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by; his it was.

^{16 Ref} You took of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so].

^{17 Ref} You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them;

¹⁸ and you took your embroidered garments, and covered them, and did set my oil and my incense before them.

^{19 Ref} My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you did even set it before them for a sweet savor; and [thus] it was, says the Lord Yahweh.

^{20 Ref} Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your prostitution a small matter,

^{21 Ref} that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through [the fire] to them?

^{22 Ref} In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and was weltering in your blood.

^{23 Ref} It is happen after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you! says the Lord Yahweh),

^{24 Ref} that you have built to you a vaulted place, and have made you a lofty place in every street.

^{25 Ref} You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.

^{26 Ref} You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.

^{27 Ref} See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary [food], and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.

^{28 Ref} You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute with them, and yet you weren't satisfied.

^{29 Ref} You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren't satisfied with this.

^{30 Ref} How weak is your heart, says the Lord Yahweh, seeing you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;

^{31 Ref} in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.

^{32 Ref} A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!

^{33 Ref} They give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.

³⁴ You are different from [other] women in your prostitution, in that none follows you to play the prostitute; and whereas you give hire, and no hire is given to you, therefore you are different.

^{35 Ref} Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh:

^{36 Ref} Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them;

^{37 Ref} therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

^{38 Ref} I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

^{39 Ref} I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places; and they shall strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels; and they shall leave you naked and bare.

^{40 Ref} They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

^{41 Ref} They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you shall also give no hire any more.

^{42 Ref} So will I cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from you, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

^{43 Ref} Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head, says the Lord Yahweh: and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.

^{44 Ref} Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use [this] proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

^{45 Ref} You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

^{46 Ref} Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

^{47 Ref} Yet have you not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.

^{48 Ref} As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.

^{49 Ref} Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

^{50 Ref} They were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good].

^{51 Ref} Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all your abominations which you have done.

^{52 Ref} You also, bear you your own shame, in that you have given judgment for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous that you: yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.