30. I, the Lord God, say that you were so disgusting that you would have done anything to get what you wanted.
31. You had sex on every street corner, and when you finished, you refused to accept money. That's worse than being a prostitute!
32. You are nothing but an unfaithful wife who would rather have sex with strangers than with your own husband.
33. Prostitutes accept money for having sex, but you bribe men from everywhere to have sex with you.
34. You're not like other prostitutes. Men don't ask you for sex—you offer to pay them!
35. Jerusalem, you prostitute, listen to me.
36. You chased after lovers, then took off your clothes and had sex. You even worshipped disgusting idols and sacrificed your own children as offerings to them.
37. So I, the Lord God, will gather every one of your lovers, those you liked and those you hated. They will stand around you, and I will rip off your clothes and let all those lovers stare at your nakedness.
38. I will find you guilty of being an unfaithful wife and a murderer, and in my fierce anger I will sentence you to death!
39. Then I will hand you over to your lovers, who will tear down the places where you had sex. They will take your clothes and jewellery, leaving you naked and empty-handed.
40. Your lovers and an angry mob will stone you to death; they will cut your dead body into pieces
41. and burn down your houses. Other women will watch these terrible things happen to you. I promise to stop you from being a prostitute and paying your lovers for sex.
42. Only then will I calm down and stop being angry and jealous.
43. You made me furious by doing all these disgusting things and by forgetting how I took care of you when you were young. Then you made things worse by acting like a prostitute. You must be punished! I, the Lord God, have spoken.
44. People will use this saying about you, Jerusalem: “If the mother is bad, so is her daughter.”