1 The word of the LORD came to me:
2 "Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her abominations.
3 Say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: By origin and birth you are from the land of the Canaanite; your father was the Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
4 As for your birth: on the day you were born no one cut your cord, no one washed you in water to clean you, no one rubbed you with salt or wrapped you in cloths.
5 No eye looked on you with pity to do even one of these things for you out of compassion; instead you were thrown out on the open ground, so despised were you on the day you were born.
6 "'Then I passed by you and saw you kicking about in your blood, and I said to you in your blood, "Live!" I said to you in your blood, "Live!"
7 I made you flourish like a plant of the field. You grew and became tall and reached the height of beauty; your breasts took shape and your hair grew long, yet you were naked and bare.
8 "'I passed by you again and saw you, and you were at the age for love. So I spread the edge of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord GOD, and you became mine.
9 I bathed you with water, washed the blood off you, and anointed you with oil.
10 I dressed you in embroidered cloth and put sandals of goatskins on your feet; I wound fine linen around you and covered you with silk.
11 I decked you with jewelry: I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace around your neck,
12 a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a splendid crown on your head.
13 So you were decked in gold and silver, and your clothes were fine linen, silk and embroidered cloth; fine flour, honey and oil were your food. You became extremely beautiful and rose to be a queen.
14 Your fame spread among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect by the splendor I had put on you, declares the Lord GOD.
15 "'But you relied on your beauty and, trading on your fame, you played the harlot; you lavished your harlotries on every passerby; it was his for the taking.
16 You took some of your clothes and made yourself gaudy high places and played the harlot on them; such things should not happen and never will.
17 You took your splendid jewelry of my gold and my silver that I had given you, made yourself male images and played the harlot with them.
18 You took your embroidered clothes to cover them, and you set my oil and my incense before them.
19 My bread that I gave you, the fine flour, oil and honey I fed you, you set before them as a soothing aroma. That is what happened, declares the Lord GOD.
20 You took your sons and your daughters whom you had borne for me and sacrificed them to the images to be eaten. Were your harlotries not enough,
21 that you slaughtered my sons and gave them over, making them pass through the fire to the images?
22 In all your abominations and harlotries you never remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, kicking about in your blood.
23 "'After all your wickedness (woe, woe to you, declares the Lord GOD!)
24 you built yourself a mound and set up a raised shrine for yourself in every public square.
25 At every street corner you built your raised shrine and made your beauty abominable, offering yourself to every passerby and multiplying your harlotries.
26 You played the harlot with the Egyptians, your well-endowed neighbors, and multiplied your harlotries to provoke me.
27 So I stretched out my hand against you, cut back your allowance, and gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd ways.
28 You played the harlot with the Assyrians because you were never satisfied; you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied.
29 You multiplied your harlotry with the land of traders, Chaldea, and even then you were not satisfied.
30 "'How sick is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, that you do all these things, the work of a domineering harlot!
31 When you built your mound at every street corner and set up your raised shrine in every public square, you were unlike a harlot, because you scoffed at a fee.
32 Adulterous wife, who takes in strangers in place of her husband!
33 All harlots are given a gift, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers and bribed them to come to you from all around for your harlotries.
34 So in your harlotries you were the reverse of other women: no one chased after you for harlotry, and you paid a fee while no fee was paid to you. You were the reverse.'
35 "So, harlot, hear the word of the LORD!
36 Thus says the Lord GOD: Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness exposed in your harlotries with your lovers, and because of all your abominable idols and the blood of your sons that you gave to them,
37 therefore see, I am going to gather all your lovers whom you pleased, all whom you loved together with all whom you hated; I will gather them against you from all around and expose your nakedness to them, and they will see all your nakedness.
38 I will judge you with the judgments of women who commit adultery and shed blood, and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
39 I will hand you over to them, and they will tear down your mound and demolish your raised shrines; they will strip off your clothes, take your splendid jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.
40 They will bring up a mob against you; they will stone you with stones and hack you to pieces with their swords.
41 They will burn down your houses and carry out judgments on you before the eyes of many women. I will put a stop to your harlotry, and you will no longer pay any fee.
42 Then I will rest my wrath on you, my jealousy will turn away from you, and I will be calm and no longer angry.
43 Because you did not remember the days of your youth but enraged me with all these things, I in turn will bring your conduct down on your head, declares the Lord GOD. Did you not add this lewdness to all your abominations?
44 "See, everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this one about you: 'Like mother, like daughter.'
45 You are your mother's daughter, who despised her husband and her sons; you are your sisters' sister, who despised their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
46 Your older sister is Samaria, who lives with her daughters on your left; and your younger sister, who lives on your right, is Sodom with her daughters.
47 You did not merely walk in their ways and copy their abominations; in a very little while you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
48 As I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done.
49 This was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, plenty of food and carefree ease, but she did not lend a hand to the poor and needy.
50 They became proud and committed abomination before me, so I removed them when I saw it.
51 Samaria did not commit half your sins. You have multiplied your abominations beyond theirs, and by all the abominations you have done you have made your sisters look righteous.
52 You too must bear your disgrace, for you have argued in your sisters' favor; because of your sins, in which you were more abominable than they, they are more righteous than you. So you too must be ashamed and bear your disgrace, since you made your sisters look righteous.
53 "I will restore their fortunes, the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and your own fortunes along with theirs,
54 so that you bear your disgrace and are ashamed of all you did when you became a consolation to them.
55 Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will return to what they were before, and Samaria and her daughters will return to what they were before, and you and your daughters will return to what you were before.
56 Was not your sister Sodom a byword on your lips in the days of your pride,
57 before your wickedness was exposed? Now you are like her, an object of scorn to the daughters of Syria and all her neighbors, and to the daughters of the Philistines, who despise you on every side.
58 You must bear your lewdness and your abominations, declares the LORD.
59 "For thus says the Lord GOD: I will deal with you as you have dealt, you who despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
60 Yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
61 Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you take your sisters, the older and the younger, and I give them to you as daughters, though not on the basis of your covenant.
62 I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the LORD,
63 so that you will remember and be ashamed, and never again open your mouth because of your disgrace, when I make atonement for you for all you have done, declares the Lord GOD."