For all the ethnic groups have drunk the wine of her immoral sexual passion. The kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich from the force of her voluptuous sensuality.”
The light of a lamp will never shine in you again. The sound of the bridegroom and of the bride will never be heard in you again. For your merchants were the tycoons of the earth, and all the ethnic groups were deceived with your magic drugs.
in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.
“Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat waiting for them by the road, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.
“For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.