Yehezkiel 16:25

16:25 At the head of every street you erected your pavilion and you disgraced ¹  your beauty when you spread ²  your legs to every passerby and multiplied your promiscuity.

Yehezkiel 16:38

16:38 I will punish you as an adulteress and murderer deserves. ³  I will avenge your bloody deeds with furious rage. ⁴ 

Yehezkiel 23:5

23:5 “Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was mine. ⁵  She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians ⁶  – warriors ⁷ 

[16:25]  ¹ tn Heb “treated as if abominable,” i.e., repudiated.

[16:25]  ² tn The only other occurrence of the Hebrew root is found in Prov 13:3 in reference to the talkative person who habitually “opens wide” his lips.

[16:38]  ³ tn Heb “and I will judge you (with) the judgments of adulteresses and of those who shed blood.”

[16:38]  ⁴ tn Heb “and I will give you the blood of rage and zeal.”

[23:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “while she was under me.” The expression indicates that Oholah is viewed as the Lord’s wife. See Num 5:19-20, 29.

[23:5]  sn Played the harlot refers to alliances with pagan nations in this context. In Ezek 16 harlotry described the sin of idolatry.

[23:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “Assyria.”

[23:5]  ⁷ tn The term apparently refers to Assyrian military officers; it is better construed with the description that follows. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:738.