016:015 But you did trust in your beauty, and played the prostitute
because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution
on everyone who passed by; his it was.
016:016 You took of your garments, and made for yourselves high places
decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them:
[the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so].
016:017 You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver,
which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men,
and played the prostitute with them;
016:018 and you took your embroidered garments, and covered them,
and did set my oil and my incense before them.
016:019 My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey,
with which I fed you, you did even set it before them for a
sweet savor; and [thus] it was, says the Lord Yahweh.
016:020 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have
borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured.
Were your prostitution a small matter,
016:021 that you have slain my children, and delivered them up,
in causing them to pass through [the fire] to them?
016:022 In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not
remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare,
and was weltering in your blood.
016:023 It is happen after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you! says
the Lord Yahweh),
016:024 that you have built to you a vaulted place, and have made you
a lofty place in every street.
016:025 You have built your lofty place at the head of every way,
and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet
to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.
016:026 You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians,
your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied
your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.
016:027 See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over 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 way.
016:028 You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians,
because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute
with them, and yet you weren't satisfied.
016:029 You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land
of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren't satisfied with this.
016:030 How weak is your heart, says the Lord Yahweh, seeing you
do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;
016:031 in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way,
and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been
as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.
016:032 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead
of her husband!
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