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Ezekiel 23:17-27 Modern English Version (MEV)

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:

23. the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them. All of them are desirable young men, captains and rulers, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.

24. They shall come against you with weapons, chariots and wagons, and with an assembly of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler and shield and helmet. And I will set the judgment before them, and they shall judge you according to their customs.

25. I will set My jealousy against you, so that they deal furiously with you. They shall take away your nose and your ears. And your remnant shall fall by the sword. They shall take your sons and your daughters. And your remnant shall be devoured by the fire.

26. They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your fair jewels.

27. Thus I will make your lewdness and your harlotry brought from the land of Egypt to cease from you so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.

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