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Ezekiel 23:36-43 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

36. And the Lord spoke to me, saying: "Son of man, should you not judge Oholah and Oholibah, and announce to them their crimes?

37. For they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands, and they have fornicated with their idols. Moreover, they have offered even their children, whom they bore for me, to them to be devoured.

38. But they have done even this to me: They have defiled my sanctuary on the same day, and they have profaned my Sabbaths.

39. And when they immolated their children to their idols, they also entered my sanctuary on the same day, so that they defiled it. They have done these things, even in the midst of my house.

40. They sent for men who were coming from far away, to whom they had sent a messenger. And so, behold, they arrived, those for whom you washed yourself, and smeared cosmetics around your eyes, and were adorned with feminine ornaments.

41. You sat upon a very beautiful bed, and a table was adorned before you, on which you placed my incense and my ointment.

42. And the voice of a multitude was exulting within her. And concerning certain men, who were being led out of a multitude of persons, and who were arriving from the desert, they placed bracelets on their hands and beautiful crowns on their heads.

43. And I said about her, as she was being worn away by her adulteries, 'Even now, she continues in her fornication!'

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