"But you took advantage of your beauty and fame to sleep with everyone who came along.

Shem's sons---Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram---were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.

have brought this on you. You were a prostitute for the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.

I told them to throw away the disgusting idols they loved and not to make themselves unclean with the false gods of Egypt, because I am the LORD their God.

Tell the city what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying: Because you have murdered so many of your own people and have defiled yourself by worshiping idols, your time is coming.

You are guilty of those murders and are defiled by the idols you made, and so your day is coming, your time is up! That is why I have let the nations make fun of you and all the countries sneer at you.

They made themselves impure by their actions and were unfaithful to God.

I know what Israel is like---she cannot hide from me. She has been unfaithful, and her people are unfit to worship me."

I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: my people have defiled themselves by worshiping idols.