7. I made you grow like a plant in the field. You grew up, matured, and became a young woman. Your breasts developed, and your hair grew. Yet, you were naked and bare.
8. “‘I went by you again and looked at you. You were old enough to make love to. So I spread my robe over you, and covered your naked body. I promised to love you, and I exchanged marriage vows with you. You became mine, declares the Almighty Lord.
9. “‘Then I bathed you with water, and I washed off your blood. I poured olive oil over you.
10. I put an embroidered dress on you and fine leather sandals on your feet. I dressed you in fine linen and covered you with silk.
11. I gave you jewelry. I put bracelets on your wrists and a necklace around your neck.
12. I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
13. So you wore gold and silver jewelry. You were dressed in fine linen, silk, and embroidered clothes. Your food was flour, honey, and olive oil. You were very beautiful, and eventually you became a queen.
14. You became famous in every nation because of your beauty. Your beauty was perfect because I gave you my glory, declares the Almighty Lord.
15. “‘But you trusted your beauty, and you used your fame to become a prostitute. You had sex with everyone who walked by.
16. You took some of your clothes and made your worship sites colorful. This is where you acted like a prostitute. Such things shouldn’t happen. They shouldn’t occur.
17. You took your beautiful gold and silver jewelry that I had given you and made male idols for yourself. Then you committed adultery with them.
18. You took off your embroidered clothes and covered the idols with them. You offered my olive oil and incense in their presence.
19. You also offered them sweet and fragrant sacrifices. You gave flour, olive oil, and honey—all the food that I gave you to eat. This is what happened, declares the Almighty Lord.
20. “‘You took your sons and daughters, who belonged to me, and you sacrificed them as food to idols. Wasn’t your prostitution enough?
21. You slaughtered my children and presented them as burnt offerings to idols.
22. With all the disgusting things that you did and all your acts of prostitution, you didn’t remember the time when you were young. You didn’t remember when you were naked and bare, kicking around in your own blood.
23. “‘How horrible! How horrible it will be for you! declares the Almighty Lord. After all your wickedness,