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Ezekiel 23:10-22 New International Version (NIV)

10. They stripped her naked, took away her sons and daughters and killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women, and punishment was inflicted on her.

11. “Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.

12. She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors in full dress, mounted horsemen, all handsome young men.

13. I saw that she too defiled herself; both of them went the same way.

14. “But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans portrayed in red,

15. with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea.

16. As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

17. Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.

18. When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her naked body, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.

19. Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.

20. There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

21. So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.

22. “Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will stir up your lovers against you, those you turned away from in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side—

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