30 “‘I am filled with fury against you,[a] declares the Sovereign Lord, when you do all these things, acting like a brazen prostitute!(A) 31 When you built your mounds at every street corner and made your lofty shrines(B) in every public square, you were unlike a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

32 “‘You adulterous wife! You prefer strangers to your own husband!

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:30 Or How feverish is your heart,

30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord God, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;

31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;

32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

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