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Ezekiel 23:34-44 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

34. 'You will drink it and drain it. Then you will gnaw its fragments And tear your breasts; for I have spoken,' declares the Lord God.

35. Therefore, thus says the Lord God, 'Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, bear now the punishment of your lewdness and your harlotries.'"

36. Moreover, the Lord said to me, "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.

37. For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. Thus they have committed adultery with their idols and even caused their sons, whom they bore to Me, to pass through the fire to them as food.

38. Again, they have done this to Me: they have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and have profaned My sabbaths.

39. For when they had slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary on the same day to profane it; and lo, thus they did within My house.

40. "Furthermore, they have even sent for men who come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and lo, they came-for whom you bathed, painted your eyes and decorated yourselves with ornaments;

41. and you sat on a splendid couch with a table arranged before it on which you had set My incense and My oil.

42. The sound of a carefree multitude 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 concerning her who was worn out by adulteries, 'Will they now commit adultery with her when she is thus?'

44. But they went in to her as they would go in to a harlot. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.

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