15 (A)“But you trusted in your beauty (B)and played the whore[a] because of your renown (C)and lavished your whorings[b] on any passerby; your beauty[c] became his. 16 You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.[d] 17 You also took (D)your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and (E)made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:15 Or were unfaithful; also verses 16, 17, 26, 28
  2. Ezekiel 16:15 Or unfaithfulness; also verses 20, 22, 25, 26, 29, 33, 34, 36
  3. Ezekiel 16:15 Hebrew it
  4. Ezekiel 16:16 The meaning of this Hebrew sentence is uncertain

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