Verse 20
Ezekiel 23:20
World English Bible, British Edition
20
She lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys,
and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַֽ/תַּעְגְּבָ֔/ה עַ֖ל פִּֽלַגְשֵׁי/הֶ֑ם אֲשֶׁ֤ר בְּשַׂר חֲמוֹרִים֙ בְּשָׂרָ֔/ם וְ/זִרְמַ֥ת סוּסִ֖ים זִרְמָתָֽ/ם
English Translation
And you were amazed by their concubines who were like the flesh of donkeys, and the issue of horses, their issue.
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Chapter 23 Context
1
The LORD’s word came again to me, saying,
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“Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.
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They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their
youth. Their breasts were f...
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Their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. They became
mine, and they bore sons and...
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5
“Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on
her lovers, on the Assyrians her neigh...
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6
who were clothed with blue—governors and rulers, all of them desirable
young men, horsemen riding on...
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7
She gave herself as a prostitute to them, all of them the choicest men
of Assyria. She defiled herse...
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8
She hasn’t left her prostitution since leaving Egypt; for in her youth
they lay with her. They cares...
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9
“Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the
hand of the Assyrians on whom she d...
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10
These uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters,
and they killed her with the sw...
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“Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her
lusting than she, and in her prostitu...
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12
She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers—her neighbours,
clothed most gorgeously, horsem...
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13
I saw that she was defiled. They both went the same way.
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14
“She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on
the wall, the images of the Chaldeans...
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15
dressed with belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads,
all of them looking like pr...
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16
As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers
to them into Chaldea.
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17
The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled
her with their prostitution. She...
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18
So she uncovered her prostitution and uncovered her nakedness. Then
my soul was alienated from her,...
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19
Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth,
in which she had played the...
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20
She lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys,
and whose issue is like the i...
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Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the caressing
of your nipples by the Egypti...
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22
“Therefore, Oholibah, the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will raise
up your lovers against you, from whom...
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23
the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, and all the
Assyrians with them; all of the...
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24
They will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and
with a company of peoples. They w...
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25
I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in
fury. They will take away your no...
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They will also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful
jewels.
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Thus I will make your lewdness to cease from you, and remove your prostitution
from the land of Egyp...
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28
“For the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will deliver you into the
hand of them whom you hate, into the ha...
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They will deal with you in hatred, and will take away all your labour,
and will leave you naked and...
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These things will be done to you because you have played the prostitute
after the nations, and becau...
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31
You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will give her
cup into your hand.’
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“The Lord GOD says:
‘You will drink of your sister’s cup,
which is deep and large.
You will be ridic...
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You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,
with the cup of astonishment and desolation,
with th...
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You will even drink it and drain it out.
You will gnaw the broken pieces of it,
and will tear your b...
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35
“Therefore the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have forgotten me
and cast me behind your back, therefore...
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The LORD said moreover to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah
and Oholibah? Then declare to them...
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For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. They
have committed adultery with the...
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38
Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary
in the same day, and have profane...
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39
For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came
the same day into my sanctuary...
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40
“Furthermore you sisters have sent for men who come from far
away, to whom a messenger was sent, and...
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and sat on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon
you set my incense and my oil.
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42
“The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. With men
of the common sort were brought drunk...
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43
Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, ‘Now they will play the
prostitute with her, and she w...
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44
They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute. So they went in
to Oholah and to Oholibah, the l...
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45
Righteous men will judge them with the judgement of adulteresses and
with the judgement of women who...
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46
“For the Lord GOD says: ‘I will bring up a mob against them,
and will give them to be tossed back an...
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The company will stone them with stones and dispatch them with their
swords. They will kill their so...
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48
“‘Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that
all women may be taught not to be lewd l...
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They will recompense your lewdness on you, and you will bear the sins
of your idols. Then you will k...
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