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Ezekiel 23:23-36 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

23. I will gather all the handsome young officials and the high-ranking cavalry officers from Babylonia and Assyria, as well as from the Chaldean tribes of Pekod, Shoa, and Koa.

24. Their large armies will come from the north with chariots and wagons carrying weapons. They will wear shields and helmets and will surround you, and I will let them judge and sentence you according to their own laws.

25. I am angry with you, so I will let them be very cruel. They will cut off your nose and ears; they will kill your children and put to death anyone in your family who is still alive.

26. Your clothes and jewellery will be torn off.

27. I will stop your wickedness and the prostitution you started back in Egypt. You will never want to think about those days again.

28. I, the Lord God, am ready to hand you over to those hateful enemies that you find so disgusting.

29. They will cruelly take away everything you have worked for and strip you naked. Then everyone will see you for the prostitute you really are. Your own vulgar sins

30. have led to this. You were the one determined to have sex with men from other nations and to worship their idols.

31. You have turned out no better than your elder sister, and now you must drink from the cup filled with my anger.

32. I, the Lord God, gave your sister a large, deep cup filled with my anger. And when you drink from that cup, you will be mocked and insulted.

33. You will end up drunk and devastated, because that cup is filled with horror and ruin.

34. But you must drink every drop! Then smash the cup to pieces and use them to cut your breasts in sorrow. I, the Lord God, have spoken.

35. You have completely rejected me, and so I promise that you will be punished for the disgusting things you did as a prostitute.

36. The Lord said:Ezekiel, son of man, it's time for you to tell Oholah and Oholibah that they are guilty. Remind them of their evil ways!

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