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Ezekiel 23:12-18 Good News Bible Catholic Edition (GNBDK)

12. She too was full of lust for the Assyrian noblemen and officers — soldiers in bright uniforms — and for the cavalry officers, all those handsome young men.

13. I saw that she was completely immoral, that the second sister was as bad as the first.

14-15. “She sank deeper and deeper in her immorality. She was attracted by the images of high Babylonian officials carved into the wall and painted bright red, with sashes round their waists and fancy turbans on their heads.

16. As soon as she saw them, she was filled with lust and sent messengers to them in Babylonia.

17. The Babylonians came to have sex with her. They used her and defiled her so much that finally she became disgusted with them.

18. She exposed herself publicly and let everyone know she was a whore. I was as disgusted with her as I had been with her sister.

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