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Ezekiel 23:8-15 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

8. She didn’t give up her promiscuity that began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin nipples, and poured out their lust on her.

9. Therefore, I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians she lusted for.

10. They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. Since they executed judgment against her, she became notorious among women.

11. “Now her sister Oholibah saw this, but she was even more depraved in her lust than Oholah, and made her promiscuous acts worse than those of her sister.

12. She lusted after the Assyrians: governors and prefects, warriors splendidly dressed, horsemen riding on steeds, all of them desirable young men.

13. And I saw that she had defiled herself; both of them had taken the same path.

14. But she increased her promiscuity when she saw male figures carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,

15. wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like officers, a depiction of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

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