Ezekiel 16:15-20

English Standard Version

^15 (A)“But you trusted in your beauty ^(B)and played the whore^[a] because of your renown ^(C)and lavished your whorings^[b] on any passerby; your beauty^[c] became his. ¹⁶ You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.^{[d] 17} You also took ^(D)your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and ^(E)made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore. ¹⁸ And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, ^(F)and set my oil and my incense before them. ^19 (G)Also my bread that I gave you—^(H)I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for ^(I)a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord God. ^20 (J)And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and ^(K)these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter