Bible Verses About High Places: Condemned for building

"'So, after all this wickedness of yours - woe, woe to you!' says Adonai ELOHIM -

'you built platforms and made yourself high places in every open space.

You built your high places at every streetcorner, turning your beauty into an abomination, spreading your legs for every passer-by, and multiplying your acts of fornication.

You had sex with your big-membered Egyptian neighbors and engaged in fornication over and over, just to provoke me.

So now I have stretched out my hand over you, diminished your ration of food and put you at the mercy of those who hate you, the daughters of the P'lishtim, who find your lewd behavior revolting.

"'Still unsatisfied, you acted like a whore also with the people of Ashur; yes, you fornicated with them and were still not satisfied.

You multiplied your acts of fornication with the land of traders, the Kasdim, and still weren't satisfied.

"'You are so weak-willed!' says Adonai ELOHIM. 'You do all these things, behaving like a shameless whore,

building your platforms on every streetcorner, making your high places in every open space - and yet you aren't like a whore, because you scorn getting paid.

Here is a wife who commits adultery, who goes to bed with strangers instead of her husband;

but also instead of receiving gifts like every other prostitute, you give gifts to all your lovers, you bribe them to come to you from all over the place and have sex with you!

You are the opposite of other women - you solicit the fornication, you aren't solicited; and you pay them, they don't pay you - you're the opposite!

"'All right, you whore, listen to the word of ADONAI!'