Ezekiel 23:3-21
3 aThey played the whore in Egypt; bthey played the whore cin their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms ▼▼Hebrew nipples; also verses 8, 21
handled. 4Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. eThey became mine, and they fbore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is gSamaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem. 5“Oholah played the whore hwhile she was mine, and ishe lusted after her lovers jthe Assyrians, warriors 6clothed in purple, kgovernors and commanders, lall of them desirable young men, mhorsemen riding on horses. 7She bestowed her whoring upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone after whom she lusted. 8She did not give up her whoring nthat she had begun in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their whoring lust upon her. 9Therefore oI delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted. 10 pThese uncovered her nakedness; qthey seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became ra byword among women, swhen judgment had been executed on her.
11 t“Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became umore corrupt than her sister ▼
▼Hebrew than she
in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister. 12She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, wall of them desirable young men. 13And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way. 14But she carried her whoring further. She saw men xportrayed on the wall, the yimages of zthe Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion, 15wearing belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, a likeness of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea. 16When she saw them, she lusted after them and aasent messengers to them abin Chaldea. 17And the Babylonians came to her acinto the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, adshe turned from them in disgust. 18When she carried on her whoring so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister. 19Yet she increased her whoring, aeremembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt 20and lusted after her lovers there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses. 21Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed ▼▼Vulgate, Syriac; Hebrew bosom for the sake of
your young breasts.”
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