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Ezekiel 23:40-49 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

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!'

44. And they entered to her, as if to a kept woman. So did they enter to Oholah and Oholibah, nefarious women.

45. But there are just men; these shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of those who shed blood. For they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.

46. For thus says the Lord God: Lead upon them a multitude, and hand them over to tumult and to pillaging.

47. And may they be stoned with the stones of the peoples, and may they be pierced with their own swords. They will put to death their sons and daughters, and they will burn their houses with fire.

48. And I will take away wickedness from the land. And all women shall learn not to act according to their wickedness.

49. And they will set your own crimes upon you, and you will bear the sins of your idols. And you shall know that I am the Lord God."

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