In verse 31 God says the girl was different from ordinary prostitutes because she did not receive money from her clients. In this verse he says that she went even further.

Men give gifts to all harlots: It is normal practice for men to pay a prostitute to have sex with her. New International Version says “Every prostitute receives a fee.”

But you gave your gifts to all your lovers: Instead of receiving money from the men she had sex with, the girl actually paid them. In the previous clause the gifts refer to money, but here they are probably presents. They are probably the gifts that God gave to her. Although most translations do not try to make this explicit, translators will do well to try to incorporate this idea.

Bribing them to come to you from every side for your harlotries: Bribing is the practice of secretly paying someone to do something to help the person who pays the money. It often involves illegal activities. Here the girl (Jerusalem) bribed men to come … from every side, that is, all the surrounding nations, for … harlotries, that is, for sexual purposes. In the parable harlotries refer to immoral sexual activity (see verse 15), but they are a picture of the political treaties that Judah made with the surrounding nations when they were unfaithful to God. This clause may be rendered “paying people to entice them to come from everywhere to sleep with you.”

A model for this verse is:

• Men always pay a prostitute to have sex with her. But you gave gifts to all the men who slept with you. You gave gifts [that I had given you] to entice men to come from all directions to have sex with you.

Quoted with permission from Gross, Carl & Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on Ezekiel. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2016. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .