²⁵ You built a place of worship at the ·beginning [head; corner] of every street. You made your beauty ·hateful [defiled; disgraced; detestable; an abomination], ·offering your body for sex [^Lspreading your legs] to anyone who passed by, ·so your sexual sins became worse and worse [multiplying your promiscuity/prostitution]. ²⁶ You also ·had sexual relations [engaged in prostitution] with the ·Egyptians [^Lsons of Egypt], who were your ·neighbors and partners in sexual sin [or well-endowed neighbors; or lusty neighbors]. Your ·sexual sins [prostitution; promiscuity] became even worse, and ·they caused me to be angry [provoked me to anger]. ²⁷ So then, [^Llook; ^Tbehold] I ·used my power [^Lstretched out my hand] against you and ·took away some of your land [reduced your boundaries; or cut off your rations]. I ·let you be defeated by [^Ldelivered you to the greed/desire of] ·those who hate you [your enemies], the Philistine ·women [^Ldaughters], who were ashamed of your ·evil ways [obscene/lewd behavior; ^Ceven the pagan Philistines were shocked at Israel’s outrageous sins].