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Ezekiel 23:29-44 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

29. They will treat you with hatred, take all you have worked for, and leave you stark naked, so that the shame of your debauchery will be exposed, both your indecency and promiscuity.

30. These things will be done to you because you acted like a prostitute with the nations, defiling yourself with their idols.

31. You have followed the path of your sister, so I will put her cup in your hand.”

32. This is what the Lord God says:You will drink your sister’s cup, which is deep and wide.You will be an object of ridicule and scorn,for it holds so much.

33. You will be filled with drunkenness and grief,with a cup of devastation and desolation,the cup of your sister Samaria.

34. You will drink it and drain it;then you will gnaw its broken pieces,and tear your breasts.For I have spoken.This is the declaration of the Lord God.

35. Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: “Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, you must bear the consequences of your indecency and promiscuity.”

36. Then the Lord said to me: “Son of man, will you pass judgment against Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare their detestable practices to them.

37. For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands; they have committed adultery with their idols. They have even made the children they bore to Me pass through the fire as food for the idols.

38. They also did this to Me: they defiled My sanctuary on that same day and profaned My Sabbaths.

39. On the same day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary to profane it. Yes, that is what they did inside My house.

40. “In addition, they sent for men who came from far away when a messenger was dispatched to them. And look how they came! You bathed, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with jewelry for them.

41. You sat on a luxurious couch with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and oil.

42. The sound of a carefree crowd was there. Drunkards from the desert were brought in, along with common men. They put bracelets on the women’s hands and beautiful crowns on their heads.

43. Then I said concerning this woman worn out by adultery: Will they now have illicit sex with her, even her?

44. Yet they had sex with her as one does with a prostitute. This is how they had sex with Oholah and Oholibah, those obscene women.

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