Ezekiel 16:15

16:15 “‘But you trusted in your beauty and capitalized on your fame by becoming a prostitute. You offered your sexual favors to every man who passed by so that your beauty ¹  became his.

Ezekiel 16:17

16:17 You also took your beautiful jewelry, made of my gold and my silver I had given to you, and made for yourself male images and engaged in prostitution ²  with them.

Ezekiel 16:30-31

16:30 “‘How sick is your heart, declares the sovereign Lord, when you perform all of these acts, the deeds of a bold prostitute. 16:31 When you built your chamber at the head of every street and put up your pavilion in every public square, you were not like a prostitute, because you scoffed at payment. ³ 

Ezekiel 16:33-34

16:33 All prostitutes receive payment, ⁴  but instead you give gifts to every one of your lovers. You bribe them to come to you from all around for your sexual favors! 16:34 You were different from other prostitutes ⁵  because no one solicited you. When you gave payment and no payment was given to you, you became the opposite!

Ezekiel 16:41

16:41 They will burn down your houses and execute judgments on you in front of many women. Thus I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer give gifts to your clients. ⁶ 

Ezekiel 20:30

20:30 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Will you defile yourselves like your fathers ⁷  and engage in prostitution with detestable idols?

Ezekiel 23:44

23:44 They had sex with her ⁸  as one does with a prostitute. In this way they had sex with Oholah and Oholibah, promiscuous women.

[16:15]  ¹ tn Heb “it” (so KJV, ASV); the referent (the beauty in which the prostitute trusted, see the beginning of the verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[16:17]  ² tn Or perhaps “and worshiped them,” if the word “prostitution” is understood in a figurative rather than a literal sense (cf. CEV, NLT).

[16:31]  ³ tn The Hebrew term, which also occurs in vv. 34 and 41 of this chapter, always refers to the payment of a prostitute (Deut 23:19; Isa 23:17; Hos 9:1; Mic 1:7).

[16:33]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.

[16:34]  ⁵ tn Heb “With you it was opposite of women in your prostitution.”

[16:41]  ⁶ tn The words “to your clients” are not in the Hebrew text but are implied.

[20:30]  ⁷ tn Heb “in the way of your fathers.”

[23:44]  ⁸ tn Heb “and they came to her.”