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Ezekiel 23:5-17 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

5. And then, Oholah committed fornication against me, and she acted madly with her lovers, with the Assyrians who approached her,

6. who were clothed with hyacinth: rulers and magistrates, passionate youths and all of the horsemen, mounted on horses.

7. And she distributed her fornications to those chosen men, all of them sons of the Assyrians. And she defiled herself with the uncleanness of all those whom she madly desired.

8. Moreover, she also did not abandon her fornications, which she had done in Egypt. For they also slept with her in her youth, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and they poured out their fornication upon her.

9. Because of this, I have delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the sons of the Assur, whom she has lustfully desired.

10. They uncovered her shame; they took away her sons and daughters; and they slew her with the sword. And they became infamous women. And they carried out judgments in her.

11. And when her sister, Oholibah, had seen this, she was even more mad with lust than the other. And her fornication was beyond the fornication of her sister.

12. She shamelessly offered herself to the sons of the Assyrians, to the rulers and magistrates who brought themselves to her clothed with colorful garments, to the horsemen who were carried by horses, and to the youths, all of them exceptional in appearance.

13. And I saw that she had been defiled, and that they both took the same path.

14. And she increased her fornications. And when she had seen men depicted on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans, expressed in colors,

15. with belts wrapped around the waist, and with dyed headdresses on their heads, having seen the appearance of all the rulers, the likenesses of the sons of Babylon and of the land of the Chaldeans in which they were born,

16. she became mad for them with the desire of her eyes, and she sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

17. And when the sons of Babylon had gone to her, to the bed of breasts, they defiled her with their fornications, and she was polluted by them, and her soul was gorged by them.

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