Study Desk

"Then it came about after all your wickedness ('Woe, woe to you!' declares the Lord GOD),

that you built yourself a ^(C1)shrine and made yourself a ^(C2)high place in every public square.

"You built yourself a high place at the beginning of ^(C1)every street and made your beauty abominable, and you spread your legs to every passer-by and multiplied your obscene practice.

"You also committed prostitution with the Egyptians, your ^(F1)lustful neighbors, and multiplied your obscene practice to ^(C1)provoke Me to anger.

"So behold, I have stretched out My hand against you and cut back your rations. And I turned you over to the desire of those who hate you, the ^(C1)daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your outrageous conduct.

"Moreover, you committed prostitution with the ^(C1)Assyrians because you were not satisfied; you committed prostitution with them and still were not satisfied.

"You also multiplied your obscene practice with the land of merchants, Chaldea; yet even with this you were not satisfied."'"

"How ^(C1)feverish is your heart," declares the Lord GOD, "while you do all these things, the action of a ^(F1)(C2)bold prostitute!

"When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every public square, in ^(C1)spurning a prostitute's fee, you were not like a prostitute.

"You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

"Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you ^(C1)give your gifts to all your lovers and lavish favors on them so that they will come to you from every direction for your obscene practices.

"So it is the opposite for you from those women in your obscene practices, in that you are not approached for prostitution, and in the fact that you pay a prostitute's fee, and no fee is paid to you; so you are the opposite."