“ Therefore, you prostitute, listen to this message from the Lord!

“你这妓女啊，要听耶和华的话。

“你这妓女啊，要听耶和华的话。

“你这妓女啊，要听耶和华的话。

“‘你这淫妇，要听耶和华的话。

“‘因此，你这妓女啊，要听耶和华的话！

「你這妓女啊，要聽耶和華的話。

「你這妓女啊，要聽耶和華的話。

「你這妓女啊，要聽耶和華的話。

「『你這淫婦，要聽耶和華的話。

“‘因此，你這妓女啊，要聽耶和華的話！

『所以妓女啊，你要聽永恆主的話；

爾為娼妓者歟、宜聽耶和華言、

爾為娼妓、宜聽我言、

今爾淫婦、當聽主言、

“‘ Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the Lord!

You prostitute, listen to the Lord’ s message.

“ Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the Lord:

“‘ Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the LORD!

Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the Lord.

‘ Now then, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord!

Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of Jehovah:

“ Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the Lord!

Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:

“‘ Therefore O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD:

“ Therefore, prostitute, hear Yahweh’s word:

Tell the southern wilderness,‘ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Hear the word of the Lord! I will set you on fire, and every tree, both green and dry, will be burned. The terrible flames will not be quenched and will scorch everything from south to north.

All this because Nineveh, the beautiful and faithless city, mistress of deadly charms, enticed the nations with her beauty. She taught them all her magic, enchanting people everywhere.

For seventy years, the length of a king’s life, Tyre will be forgotten. But then the city will come back to life as in the song about the prostitute:Take a harp and walk the streets, you forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody and sing your songs so you will be remembered again.

Now then, listen to this message from the Lord:“ You say,‘ Don’t prophesy against Israel. Stop preaching against my people.’

“ Son of man, prophesy against the false prophets of Israel who are inventing their own prophecies. Say to them,‘ Listen to the word of the Lord.

Listen to the Lord, you leaders of“ Sodom.” Listen to the law of our God, people of“ Gomorrah.”

During the reign of King Josiah, the Lord said to me,“ Have you seen what fickle Israel has done? Like a wife who commits adultery, Israel has worshiped other gods on every hill and under every green tree.I thought,‘ After she has done all this, she will return to me.’ But she did not return, and her faithless sister Judah saw this.She saw that I divorced faithless Israel because of her adultery. But that treacherous sister Judah had no fear, and now she, too, has left me and given herself to prostitution.

“ Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:

Therefore, listen to this message from the Lord, you scoffing rulers in Jerusalem.

Their mother is a shameless prostitute and became pregnant in a shameful way. She said,‘ I’ll run after other lovers and sell myself to them for food and water, for clothing of wool and linen, and for olive oil and drinks.’

“ If a man divorces a woman and she goes and marries someone else, he will not take her back again, for that would surely corrupt the land. But you have prostituted yourself with many lovers, so why are you trying to come back to me?” says the Lord.

Hear the word of the Lord, O people of Israel! The Lord has brought charges against you, saying:“ There is no faithfulness, no kindness, no knowledge of God in your land.

See how Jerusalem, once so faithful, has become a prostitute. Once the home of justice and righteousness, she is now filled with murderers.

Then Micaiah continued,“ Listen to what the Lord says! I saw the Lord sitting on his throne with all the armies of heaven around him, on his right and on his left.

for you have had five husbands, and you aren’t even married to the man you’re living with now. You certainly spoke the truth!”

A mysterious name was written on her forehead:“ Babylon the Great, Mother of All Prostitutes and Obscenities in the World.”

Jesus replied,“ If you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask me, and I would give you living water.”