“You took your sons.
You took your daughters.
You had borne them
To me.
You sacrificed them
To be devoured.
As if being a whore
Was not enough?
You slaughtered
My children.
You delivered them up
As an offering
To them.
In all your abominations,
In all your acts
Of prostitution,
You did not remember
The days of your youth,
When you were naked,
When you were bare,
Flailing about
In your blood.”
There is little doubt that this young girl Jerusalem and Yahweh bore children together. Yahweh clearly says that their mutual sons and daughters had been sacrificed to these false gods. This woman Jerusalem had slaughtered their children. Was it not bad enough that she was a prostitute? Did she have to sacrifice their children too? They were delivered to these strange gods as a death offering. In all her abominations and various prostitute ways, she never remembered her youth when she was naked, lying in blood. She was not grateful for all that Yahweh had done for her.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 