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Ezekiel 23:12-18 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

12. She too lusted after the Assyrians, governors and officers, warriors impeccably clothed, mounted on horses, all of them handsome young soldiers.

13. I saw that she had defiled herself—now both had gone down the same path.

14. She went further in her prostitution: She saw male figures drawn on the wall, images of Chaldeans drawn with vermilion,

15. with sashes tied about their waists, flowing turbans on their heads, all looking like chariot warriors, images of Babylonians, natives of Chaldea.

16. As soon as she set eyes on them she lusted for them, and she sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

17. The Babylonians came to her, to her love couch; they defiled her with their impurities. But as soon as they had defiled her, she recoiled from them.

18. When her prostitution was discovered and her shame revealed, I recoiled from her as I had recoiled from her sister.

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