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Ezekiel 23:16-22 Modern English Version (MEV)

16. And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

17. The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their harlotry, and she was polluted with them, and her soul became disgusted with them.

18. So she uncovered her harlotries and uncovered her nakedness. Then My soul became disgusted with her, as My soul became disgusted with her sister.

19. Yet she multiplied her harlotries while remembering the days of her youth in which she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

20. For she lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

21. Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth when the Egyptians handled your bosom because of the breasts of your youth.

22. Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord God: I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom you were alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side:

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