Ezekiel 16:38-41

The Lord would deal with Jerusalem as people dealt with adulteresses and murderers. The punishment that the Mosaic Law prescribed for a city that practiced idolatry (spiritual adultery) was the sword (Deuteronomy 13:15), and the punishment for adultery was stoning (Leviticus 20:10; cf. John 8:4-5). Yahweh would punish Jerusalem severely in His wrath and jealousy. He would turn her over to her lovers who would take from her everything she had leaving her naked and bare, her original condition (cf. Ezekiel 16:7; Ezekiel 16:22; Hosea 2:12; Nahum 3:5). "Naked" and "exile" are basically the same word in Hebrew. Exile meant for the Judahites collectively what nakedness meant to them personally. Thus the idea of nakedness became an apt description of the exile.

"The public exposure of the naked body was a symbolic act of legal punishment for adulterers . . .: it reversed the husband’s provision of clothing (Ezekiel 16:10) and took away the wife’s married identity [cf. Jeremiah 13:26; Hosea 2:10; Nahum 3:5]." [Note: Allen, p. 242. Cf. Kruger, p. 82.]

Jerusalem’s lovers would also incite other nations to attack and wage war against her. Her enemies would burn her houses and punish her in the sight of even more nations. This would end her prostitution.