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that you have slain My children and offered them up to them by causing them to pass through the fire?
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And in all your abominations and acts of harlotry you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, struggling in your blood.
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"Then it was so, after all your wickedness--'Woe, woe to you!' says the Lord God--
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that you also built for yourself a shrine, and made a high place for yourself in every street.
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You built your high places at the head of every road, and made your beauty to be abhorred. You offered yourself to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your acts of harlotry.
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You also committed harlotry with the Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to provoke Me to anger.
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Behold, therefore, I stretched out My hand against you, diminished your allotment, and gave you up to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.
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You also played the harlot with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; indeed you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied.
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Moreover you multiplied your acts of harlotry as far as the land of the trader, Chaldea; and even then you were not satisfied.
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How degenerate is your heart!" says the Lord God, "seeing you do all these things, the deeds of a brazen harlot.
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"You erected your shrine at the head of every road, and built your high place in every street. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned payment.