28. “Because you were not satisfied by the others, you went running after the Assyrians. You were their prostitute, but they didn't satisfy you either.
29. You were also a prostitute for the Babylonians, that nation of merchants, but they didn't satisfy you either.”
30. This is what the Sovereign Lord is saying: “You have done all this like a shameless prostitute.
31. On every street you built places to worship idols and practise prostitution. But you are not out for money like a common prostitute.
32. You are like a woman who commits adultery with strangers instead of loving her husband.
33. A prostitute is paid, but you gave presents to all your lovers and bribed them to come from everywhere to sleep with you.
34. You are a special kind of prostitute. No one forced you to become one. You didn't get paid; you paid them! Yes, you are different.”
35. Now then, Jerusalem, you whore! Hear what the Lord is saying.
36. This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “You stripped off your clothes and, like a prostitute, you gave yourself to your lovers and to all your disgusting idols, and you killed your children as sacrifices to idols.
37. Because of this I will bring all your former lovers together — the ones you liked and the ones you hated. I will bring them round you in a circle, and then I will strip off your clothes and let them see you naked.
38. I will condemn you for adultery and murder, and in my anger and fury I will punish you with death.