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But you trusted in your beauty ,
and played the harlot because of your renown ,
and lavished your harlotries on any passer-by .
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You took some of your garments ,
and made for yourself gaily decked shrines ,
and on them played the harlot ;
the like has never been ,
nor ever shall be .
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You also took your fair jewels of my gold and of my silver ,
which I had given you ,
and made for yourself images of men ,
and with them played the harlot ;
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and you took your embroidered garments to cover them ,
and set my oil and my incense before them .
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Also my bread which I gave you--I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey--you set before them for a pleasing odor ,
says the Lord GOD .
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And you took your sons and your daughters ,
whom you had borne to me ,
and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured .
Were your harlotries so small a matter
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that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them ?
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And in all your abominations and your harlotries you did not remember the days of your youth ,
when you were naked and bare ,
weltering in your blood .
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And after all your wickedness (
woe ,
woe to you !
says the Lord GOD ),
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you built yourself a vaulted chamber ,
and made yourself a lofty place in every square ;
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at the head of every street you built your lofty place and prostituted your beauty ,
offering yourself to any passer-by ,
and multiplying your harlotry .
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You also played the harlot with the Egyptians ,
your lustful neighbors ,
multiplying your harlotry ,
to provoke me to anger .
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Behold ,
therefore ,
I stretched out my hand against you ,
and diminished your allotted portion ,
and delivered you to the greed of your enemies ,
the daughters of the Philistines ,
who were ashamed of your lewd behavior .
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You played the harlot also with the Assyrians ,
because you were insatiable ;
yea ,
you played the harlot with them ,
and still you were not satisfied .
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You multiplied your harlotry also with the trading land of Chalde '
a ;
and even with this you were not satisfied .
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How lovesick is your heart ,
says the Lord GOD ,
seeing you did all these things ,
the deeds of a brazen harlot ;
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building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street ,
and making your lofty place in every square .
Yet you were not like a harlot ,
because you scorned hire .
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Adulterous wife ,
who receives strangers instead of her husband !
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Men give gifts to all harlots ;
but you gave your gifts to all your lovers ,
bribing them to come to you from every side for your harlotries .
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So you were different from other women in your harlotries :
none solicited you to play the harlot ;
and you gave hire ,
while no hire was given to you ;
therefore you were different .
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Wherefore ,
O harlot ,
hear the word of the LORD :
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Thus says the Lord GOD ,
Because your shame was laid bare and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotries with your lovers ,
and because of all your idols ,
and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them ,
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therefore ,
behold ,
I will gather all your lovers ,
with whom you took pleasure ,
all those you loved and all those you loathed ;
I will gather them against you from every side ,
and will uncover your nakedness to them ,
that they may see all your nakedness .
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And I will judge you as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged ,
and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy .
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And I will give you into the hand of your lovers ,
and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places ;
they shall strip you of your clothes and take your fair jewels ,
and leave you naked and bare .
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They shall bring up a host against you ,
and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords .
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And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women ;
I will make you stop playing the harlot ,
and you shall also give hire no more .
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So will I satisfy my fury on you ,
and my jealousy shall depart from you ;
I will be calm ,
and will no more be angry .
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Because you have not remembered the days of your youth ,
but have enraged me with all these things ;
therefore ,
behold ,
I will requite your deeds upon your head ,
says the Lord GOD . "
Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations ?
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Behold ,
every one who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you , `
Like mother ,
like daughter .'
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You are the daughter of your mother ,
who loathed her husband and her children ;
and you are the sister of your sisters ,
who loathed their husbands and their children .
Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite .
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And your elder sister is Sama '
ria ,
who lived with her daughters to the north of you ;
and your younger sister ,
who lived to the south of you ,
is Sodom with her daughters .
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Yet you were not content to walk in their ways ,
or do according to their abominations ;
within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways .
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As I live ,
says the Lord GOD ,
your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done .
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Behold ,
this was the guilt of your sister Sodom :
she and her daughters had pride ,
surfeit of food ,
and prosperous ease ,
but did not aid the poor and needy .
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They were haughty ,
and did abominable things before me ;
therefore I removed them ,
when I saw it .
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Sama '
ria has not committed half your sins ;
you have committed more abominations than they ,
and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations which you have committed .
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Bear your disgrace ,
you also ,
for you have made judgment favorable to your sisters ;
because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they ,
they are more in the right than you .
So be ashamed ,
you also ,
and bear your disgrace ,
for you have made your sisters appear righteous .
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I will restore their fortunes ,
both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters ,
and the fortunes of Sama '
ria and her daughters ,
and I will restore your own fortunes in the midst of them ,
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that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done ,
becoming a consolation to them .
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As for your sisters ,
Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former estate ,
and Sama '
ria and her daughters shall return to their former estate ;
and you and your daughters shall return to your former estate .
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Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride ,
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before your wickedness was uncovered ?
Now you have become like her an object of reproach for the daughters of Edom and all her neighbors ,
and for the daughters of the Philistines ,
those round about who despise you .
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You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations ,
says the LORD .
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Yea ,
thus says the Lord GOD :
I will deal with you as you have done ,
who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant ,
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yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth ,
and I will establish with you an everlasting covenant .
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Then you will remember your ways ,
and be ashamed when I take your sisters ,
both your elder and your younger ,
and give them to you as daughters ,
but not on account of the covenant with you .
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I will establish my covenant with you ,
and you shall know that I am the LORD ,
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that you may remember and be confounded ,
and never open your mouth again because of your shame ,
when I forgive you all that you have done ,
says the Lord GOD ."