“‘ How sick is your heart, declares the sovereign LORD, when you perform all of these acts, the deeds of a bold prostitute.

“主耶和华说：你行这一切事，都是不知羞耻妓女所行的，可见你的心是何等懦弱！

“你的心何等脆弱！这是主耶和华说的。你做这一切事，都是不知羞耻的妓女所做的，

“你的心何等脆弱！这是主耶和华说的。你做这一切事，都是不知羞耻的妓女所做的，

“‘主耶和华说，你的心败坏至极，简直就像不知羞耻的娼妓，

“‘你行的这一切事，简直是任性无耻的妓女所为，可见你的意志是多么的薄弱。这是耶和华的宣告。

「主耶和華說：你行這一切事，都是不知羞恥妓女所行的，可見你的心是何等懦弱！

「你的心何等脆弱！這是主耶和華說的。你做這一切事，都是不知羞恥的妓女所做的，

「你的心何等脆弱！這是主耶和華說的。你做這一切事，都是不知羞恥的妓女所做的，

「『主耶和華說，你的心敗壞至極，簡直就像不知羞恥的娼妓，

“‘你行的這一切事，簡直是任性無恥的妓女所為，可見你的意志是多麼的薄弱。這是耶和華的宣告。

『主永恆主發神諭說：你的心怎樣地鬧相思病啊，你行這一切、一個任性淫婦的所作所為啊！

主耶和華曰、爾行此事、乃無恥之淫婦所為、爾心何其荏弱哉、

主耶和華曰、爾行此事、有若淫婦、既無羞惡之心、又精神之頓耗。

主天主曰、爾行此諸事、俱無羞恥之淫婦所行、爾心何其敗哉、

“‘ I am filled with fury against you, declares the Sovereign Lord, when you do all these things, acting like a brazen prostitute!

“‘ “I am filled with great anger against you,” announces the Lord and King.“ Just look at all the things you are doing! You are acting like a prostitute who has no shame at all.

“ How sick is your heart, declares the Lord God, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute,

“ What a sick heart you have, says the Sovereign Lord, to do such things as these, acting like a shameless prostitute.

“‘ How your heart was inflamed with lust— the declaration of the Lord GOD— when you did all these things, the acts of a brazen prostitute,

“ How feverish is your heart,” declares the Lord God,“ while you do all these things, the action of a bold prostitute!

“ How degenerate is your heart!” says the Lord God,“ seeing you do all these things, the deeds of a brazen harlot.

How weak is thy heart, saith the Lord Jehovah, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an impudent harlot;

“ How your heart was inflamed with lust”— the declaration of the Lord God—“ when you did all these things, the acts of a brazen prostitute,

How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these[ things], the work of an imperious whorish woman;

“‘“ How weak is your heart,” says the Lord Yahweh,“ since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;

That is why the rains have been withheld, and the spring rains have not come. Yet in spite of this you are obstinate as a prostitute. You refuse to be ashamed of what you have done.

The LORD answered,“ This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”

An ox recognizes its owner, a donkey recognizes where its owner puts its food; but Israel does not recognize me, my people do not understand.”

The woman called Folly is brash, she is naive and does not know anything.

The look on their faces testifies to their guilt; like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. Too bad for them! For they bring disaster on themselves.

( She is loud and rebellious, she does not remain at home–at one time outside, at another in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.)So she grabbed him and kissed him, and with a bold expression she said to him,

Be amazed at this, O heavens! Be shocked and utterly dumbfounded,” says the LORD.“ Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: they have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water.”

She said to him,“ How can you say,‘ I love you,’ when you will not share your secret with me? Three times you have deceived me and have not told me what makes you so strong.”She nagged him every day and pressured him until he was sick to death of it.

She persuaded him with persuasive words; with her smooth talk she compelled him.

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke to me.“ Come,” he said,“ I will show you the condemnation and punishment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality and the earth’s inhabitants got drunk with the wine of her immorality.”So he carried me away in the Spirit to a wilderness, and there I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.Now the woman was dressed in purple and scarlet clothing, and adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls. She held in her hand a golden cup filled with detestable things and unclean things from her sexual immorality.On her forehead was written a name, a mystery:“ Babylon the Great, the Mother of prostitutes and of the detestable things of the earth.”I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of those who testified to Jesus. I was greatly astounded when I saw her.