Ezekiel 23:30
Good News Translation
have brought this on you. You were a prostitute for the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.

New Revised Standard Version
have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations, and polluted yourself with their idols.

Contemporary English Version
have led to this. You were the one determined to have sex with men from other nations and to worship their idols.

New American Bible
brought these things upon you because you served as a prostitute for the nations, defiling yourself with their idols.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have done these things to thee, because thou hast played the harlot with the nations among which thou wast defiled with their idols.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They have done these things to thee, because thou hast played the harlot with the nations among which thou wast defiled with their idols.

thou hast

Ezekiel 23:12-21 Impudently prostituting herself to the children of the Assyrians, the princes, and rulers that came to her, clothed with divers colours, to the horsemen that rode upon horses, and to young men all of great beauty. . . .

Ezekiel 6:9 And they that are saved of you shall remember me amongst the nations, to which they are carried captives: because I have broken their heart that was faithless, and revolted from me: and their eyes that went a fornicating after their idols: and they shall be displeased with themselves because of the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

Psalm 106:35-38 And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their works: . . .

Jeremiah 2:18-20 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the troubled water? And what hast thou to do with the way of the Assyrians, to drink the water of the river? . . .

Jeremiah 16:11,12 Thou shalt say to them: Because your fathers forsook me, saith the Lord: and went after strange gods, and served them, and adored them: and they forsook me, and kept not my law. . . .

Jeremiah 22:8,9 And many nations shall pass by this city: and they shall say every man to his neighbour: Why hath the Lord done so to this great city? . . .

because thou art

Ezekiel 23:7,17 And she committed her fornications with those chosen men, all sons of the Assyrians: and she defiled herself with the uncleanness of all them on whom she doted. . . .

Context
Oholibah to Be Plagued
29And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and they shall take away all thy labours, and shall let thee go naked, and full of disgrace, and the disgrace of thy fornication shall be discovered, thy wickedness, and thy fornications. 30They have done these things to thee, because thou hast played the harlot with the nations among which thou wast defiled with their idols.31Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister and I will give her cup into thy hand.…
Cross References
Exodus 34:15
Make no covenant with the men of those countries; lest, when they have committed fornication with their gods, and have adored their idols, some one call thee to eat of the things sacrificed.

Ezekiel 6:9
And they that are saved of you shall remember me amongst the nations, to which they are carried captives: because I have broken their heart that was faithless, and revolted from me: and their eyes that went a fornicating after their idols: and they shall be displeased with themselves because of the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

Zephaniah 3:1
Woe to the provoking and redeemed city, the dove.

Ezekiel 23:29
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