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Yahweh continues to speak about Jerusalem as if the city were a young woman. The city represents the people who live there. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)
you trusted in your own beauty
"you placed your confidence in your own beauty"
acted like a prostitute
Yahweh speaks of Jerusalem as if the city were an unfaithful wife who sleeps with other men in exchange for payment. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
you poured out your acts of prostitution
Yahweh speaks of Jerusalem's immoral actions as if they were liquids and of committing those actions repeatedly as if it were pouring those liquids from a container. Alternate translation: "you repeatedly committed your acts of prostitution" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
so that your beauty became his
This Hebrew phrase is translated in many different ways by various modern versions. For example, some Bibles read "so that you gave yourself to him" or "his it was"