Verse 6
Ezekiel 23:6
World English Bible
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who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
Original Language Text
hebrew
לְבֻשֵׁ֤י תְכֵ֨לֶת֙ פַּח֣וֹת וּ/סְגָנִ֔ים בַּח֥וּרֵי חֶ֖מֶד כֻּלָּ֑/ם פָּרָשִׁ֕ים רֹכְבֵ֖י סוּסִֽים
English Translation
In garments of blue, purple, and scarlet, the young men of desire, all of them, are mounted horsemen.
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Chapter 23 Context
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Yahweh’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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“Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neigh...
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who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding o...
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She gave herself as a prostitute to them, all of them the choicest men of Assyria. She defiled herse...
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She hasn’t left her prostitution since leaving Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her. They carre...
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“Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she...
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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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She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsem...
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I saw that she was defiled. They both went the same way.
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“She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans...
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dressed with belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like pr...
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As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
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The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution. She...
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So she uncovered her prostitution and uncovered her nakedness. Then my soul was alienated from her,...
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Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the...
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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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“Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, f...
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the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; all of the...
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They will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples. They w...
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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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“For thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, int...
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They will deal with you in hatred, and will take away all your labor, and will leave you naked and b...
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These things will be done to you, because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and beca...
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You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I give her cup into your hand.’
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“Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
‘You will drink of your sister’s cup,
which is deep and large.
You will...
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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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“Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back,...
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Yahweh said moreover to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them th...
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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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Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profane...
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For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary...
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“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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“The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. With men of the common sort were brought drunk...
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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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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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Righteous men will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who s...
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“For thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘I will bring up a mob against them, and will give them to be tossed...
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The company will stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords. They will kill their s...
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“‘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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