Ezekiel 23:36-48
36The Lord said to me: a“Son of man, bwill you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations. 37For cthey have committed adultery, dand blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even eoffered up ▼▼Or have even made pass through the fire
to them for food the children whom they had borne to me. 38Moreover, this they have done to me: gthey have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and hprofaned my Sabbaths. 39For when ithey had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day jthey came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, kthis is what they did in my house. 40They even sent for men to come from afar, lto whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, mpainted your eyes, nand adorned yourself with ornaments. 41You sat on oa stately couch, with a table spread before it pon which you had placed my incense and qmy oil. 42The rsound of a carefree multitude was with her; and with men of the common sort, drunkards ▼▼Or Sabeans
were brought from the wilderness; and they put tbracelets on the hands of the women, and ubeautiful crowns on their heads. 43“Then I said of her who was worn out by adultery, 'Now they will continue to use her for a whore, even her!' ▼
▼The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain
44For they have gone in to her, as men go in to a prostitute. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, lewd women! 45But righteous men wshall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.” 46For thus says the Lord God: x“Bring up a vast host against them, and make them yan object of terror and za plunder. 47 aaAnd the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. abThey shall kill their sons and their daughters, and acburn up their houses. 48 adThus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.
Ezekiel 24:11
11Then set it empty upon the coals, that it may become hot, and its copper may burn, aethat its uncleanness may be melted in it, its corrosion consumed.2 Corinthians 7:1
1Since we have these promises, beloved, aflet us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body ▼▼Greek flesh
and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
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