Jerusalem’s Unfaithfulness and Idolatry

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"'But you put your trust in your own beauty and began prostituting yourself because of your fame, soliciting everyone passing by and accepting all comers.

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You took your clothes and used them to decorate with bright colors the high places you made for yourself, and there you continued prostituting yourself. Such things shouldn't happen, and in the future they won't.

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You also took your beautiful jewels made of my gold and my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images, with which you continued to prostitute yourself.

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You took your embroidered clothing and covered them; you set my olive oil and my incense in front of them;

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and you took my food, which I had given you - my fine flour, olive oil and honey, that I had given you to eat - and set it in front of them to give a pleasant aroma. That is how it was,' says Adonai ELOHIM.

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"'Moreover, your sons and daughters, whom you bore me, you took and sacrificed for them to devour. Were these fornications of yours a casual matter? -

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killing my children, handing them over and setting them apart for [these idols]?

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In all your disgusting practices and fornications you never remembered the condition you were in when you were young - naked, exposed and wallowing in your own blood.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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!

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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!

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