Ezekiel 16:30-34

All her brazen adulteries had left Jerusalem with a sick heart; she could no longer feel true love. She was worse than a common prostitute in that she practiced adultery not because she needed money from her lovers but simply because it made her feel good. She took strangers to bed with her instead of her husband. She even gave gifts to her lovers to bribe them to come to her (paying tribute to make alliances) rather than giving them what they wanted in payment for the bribes they would normally have offered her. Her adulteries were worse than those of common prostitutes in that she paid her lovers rather than receiving payment from them (cf. Hosea 8:9).

"Ezekiel enumerated at least eight reasons for the exile: pride (Ezekiel 16:15 a), spiritual prostitution (Ezekiel 16:15-19), materialistic idolatry (Ezekiel 16:16-19), human sacrifices (Ezekiel 16:20-21), forgetting God (Ezekiel 16:22), propagating her prostitution (Ezekiel 16:23-25), trusting relations with pagan nations (Ezekiel 16:26-29), and a weak will that cast off all moral restraints (Ezekiel 16:30-34)." [Note: Cooper, p. 171.]