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Ezekiel 23:40-49 Modern English Version (MEV)

40. Furthermore, they have even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and they came. For them you washed yourself, painted your eyes, and decked yourself with ornaments.

41. And you sat on a stately couch with a table prepared before it on which you had set My incense and My oil.

42. A sound of a multitude at ease was with her, and drunkards were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort. And they put bracelets on the hands of the women and beautiful crowns on their heads.

43. Then I said to her who was worn out by adulteries, “Will they now commit harlotries with her when she is so?”

44. Yet they went in to her as they go in to a woman who plays the harlot. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.

45. But righteous men shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.

46. For thus says the Lord God: Bring up a company against them and give them over to terror and devastation.

47. The company shall stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords. They shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

48. Thus I will cause lewdness to cease from the land, that all women may be warned and not commit lewdness as you have done.

49. Your lewdness shall be recompensed upon you, and you shall bear the punishment of worshipping your idols. Then you shall know that I am the Lord God.

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