1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Ezekiel 16:17 And thou tookest thy beautiful vessels, of my gold, and my silver, which I gave thee, and thou madest thee images of men, and hast committed fornication with them.

My gold, for the temple, or thy most precious ornaments, which were sacrificed to gratify thy lubricity, (Calmet) or to form the golden calf, etc., Exodus xxxii. (Haydock) --- Obscene representations were also used in the worship of Osiris. (Herodotus 2:48.)