25 Thou hast built thine high place at every [a]corner of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred: thou hast opened thy feet to everyone that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredom.

26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the [b]Egyptians thy neighbors, which have great members, and hast increased thy whoredom, to provoke me.

27 Behold, therefore I did stretch out mine hand over thee, and will diminish thine ordinary, and deliver thee unto the will of them that hate thee, even to the [c]daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy wicked way.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:25 Or, head.
  2. Ezekiel 16:26 He noteth the great impiety of this people, who first falling from God to seek help at strange nations, did also at length embrace their idolatry, thinking thereby to make their amity more strong.
  3. Ezekiel 16:27 Or, cities.

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