Ezekiel 16:21-38 Modern English Version (MEV)

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.

31. When you built your shrine at the head of every street and made your high place in every square, you have not been as a harlot in that you scorned payment.

32. You have been as a wife who commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

33. Men give gifts to all harlots. But you give your gifts to all your lovers, and hire them that they may come to you on every side for your harlotry.

34. Thus you are different from other women in your harlotries in that no one follows you to commit harlotries, because you give money, and no money is given to you. Thus you are different.

35. Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord.

36. Thus says the Lord God, Because your filthiness was poured out and your nakedness discovered through your harlotries with your lovers, and with all the idols of your abominations, and by the blood of your children, which you gave to idols,

37. therefore I will gather all your lovers with whom you have taken pleasure and all those whom you have loved with all those whom you have hated. I will even gather them from all around against you and will reveal your nakedness to them so that they may see all your nakedness.

38. I will judge you as women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged. And I will bring on you the blood of fury and jealousy.

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