Ezekiel 23
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Ezekiel 23:11-21

11“Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was 1more corrupt in her lust than she, and her harlotries were more than the harlotries of her sister. 12She lusted after the 23Assyrians, governors and officials, the ones near, magnificently dressed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men. 13I saw that she had defiled herself; they both took 4the same way. 14So she increased her harlotries. And she saw men 5portrayed on the wall, images of the 6Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, 15girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, 7like the 8Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth. 169When she saw them she 10lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. 17The 1112Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their harlotry. And when she had been defiled by them, 13she became disgusted with them. 18She 14uncovered her harlotries and uncovered her nakedness; then 15I became 16disgusted with her, as 17I had become disgusted with her 18sister. 19Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt. 20She 19lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses. 21Thus you longed for the 20lewdness of your youth, when 21the Egyptians handled your bosom because of the breasts of your youth.

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Notes

  1. 1. Ezekiel 23:11 Jer 3:8-11; Ezek 16:51 ↩
  2. 2. Ezekiel 23:12 Lit sons of Asshur ↩
  3. 3. Ezekiel 23:12 2 Kin 16:7 ↩
  4. 4. Ezekiel 23:13 Lit one ↩
  5. 5. Ezekiel 23:14 Ezek 8:10 ↩
  6. 6. Ezekiel 23:14 Ezek 16:29 ↩
  7. 7. Ezekiel 23:15 Lit the likeness of ↩
  8. 8. Ezekiel 23:15 Lit sons of Babel ↩
  9. 9. Ezekiel 23:16 Lit At the sight of her eyes ↩
  10. 10. Ezekiel 23:16 Ezek 23:20; Matt 5:28 ↩
  11. 11. Ezekiel 23:17 Lit sons of Babel ↩
  12. 12. Ezekiel 23:17 2 Kin 24:17 ↩
  13. 13. Ezekiel 23:17 Lit her soul ↩
  14. 14. Ezekiel 23:18 Jer 8:12; Ezek 21:24; 23:10 ↩
  15. 15. Ezekiel 23:18 Lit My soul ↩
  16. 16. Ezekiel 23:18 Ps 78:59; 106:40; Jer 12:8 ↩
  17. 17. Ezekiel 23:18 Lit My soul ↩
  18. 18. Ezekiel 23:18 Ezek 23:9; Amos 5:21 ↩
  19. 19. Ezekiel 23:20 Ezek 16:26; 17:15 ↩
  20. 20. Ezekiel 23:21 Jer 3:9; Ezek 23:3 ↩
  21. 21. Ezekiel 23:21 So two mss; M.T. from Egypt ↩

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