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14 Your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of my splendour that I had bestowed on you, says the Lord God.

15 But you trusted in your beauty, and played the whore because of your fame, and lavished your whorings on any passer-by.[a] 16 You took some of your garments, and made for yourself colourful shrines, and on them played the whore; nothing like this has ever been or ever shall be.[b]

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  1. Ezekiel 16:15 Heb adds let it be his
  2. Ezekiel 16:16 Meaning of Heb uncertain

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