Ezekiel 16:11-30 Modern English Version (MEV)

11. I decked you also with ornaments, and put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck.

12. I put a jewel on your forehead, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

13. Thus you were decked with gold and silver. And your raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work. You ate fine flour, and honey, and oil. And you were exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.

14. Then your renown went out among the nations for your beauty. For it was perfect through My comeliness which I had put upon you, says the Lord God.

15. But you trusted in your own beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and poured out your fornications on every willing passerby.

16. Of your garments you took and decked your high places with various colors and played the harlot on them, which should never come about or happen.

17. You have also taken your fair jewels made of My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men that you might commit harlotry with them.

18. Then you took your embroidered garments and covered them. And you have set My oil and My incense before them.

19. My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you have even set before them for a sweet savor. And thus it was, says the Lord God.

20. Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to Me, and these you have sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter?

21. You have slain My children and delivered them up to idols by causing them to pass through the fire.

22. Besides all your abominations and your harlotries you have not remembered the days of your youth when you were naked and bare and were polluted in your blood.

23. After all your wickedness (Woe, woe to you! says the Lord God)

24. you also built for yourself a shrine and have made yourself a high place in every street.

25. You have built yourself a high place at the head of every street, and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have spread your legs to every passerby to multiply your harlotries.

26. You have also committed fornication with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and increased your harlotries to provoke Me to anger.

27. Therefore I have stretched out My hand against 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 conduct.

28. You have played the harlot also with the Assyrians because you were insatiable. Indeed, you have played the harlot with them, and yet could not be satisfied.

29. You have moreover multiplied your fornication with the land of merchants, Chaldea. And yet you were not satisfied even with this.

30. How weak is your heart, says the Lord God, seeing you do all these things, the works of an imperious harlot.

Ezekiel 16