Verse 16
Ezekiel 23:16
Literal Standard Version
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And she lusts on them at the sight of her eyes, || And sends messengers to them, to Chaldea.
Original Language Text
hebrew
ו/תעגב וַ/תַּעְגְּבָ֥/ה עֲלֵי/הֶ֖ם לְ/מַרְאֵ֣ה עֵינֶ֑י/הָ וַ/תִּשְׁלַ֧ח מַלְאָכִ֛ים אֲלֵי/הֶ֖ם כַּשְׂדִּֽימָ/ה
English Translation
And she was distressed before their eyes, and she sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
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Chapter 23 Context
1
And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying, “Son of man,
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Two women were daughters of one mother,
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And they go whoring in Egypt, || They have gone whoring in their youth, || There they have bruised t...
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And their names are Aholah the older, || And Aholibah her sister, || And they are Mine, and bear son...
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And Aholah goes whoring under Me, and she lusts on her lovers, on the neighboring Assyrians,
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Clothed with blue—governors and prefects, || All of them desirable young men, || Horsemen, riding on...
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And she gives her whoredoms on them, || The choice of the sons of Asshur, || All of them—even all on...
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And she has not forsaken her whoredoms out of Egypt, || For with her they lay in her youth, || And t...
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Therefore I have given her into the hand of her lovers, || Into the hand of sons of Asshur on whom s...
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They have uncovered her nakedness, || They have taken her sons and her daughters, || And they have s...
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And her sister Aholibah sees, || And she makes her unhealthy love more corrupt than she, || And her...
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She has lusted on sons of Asshur, || Governors and prefects, || Neighboring ones—clothed in perfecti...
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And I see that she has been defiled, || One way is to them both.
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And she adds to her whoredoms, || And she sees men carved on the wall, || Pictures of Chaldeans, car...
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Girded with a girdle on their loins, || Dyed attire spread out on their heads, || The appearance of...
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And she lusts on them at the sight of her eyes, || And sends messengers to them, to Chaldea.
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And sons of Babylon come in to her, || To the bed of loves, || And they defile her with their whored...
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And she reveals her whoredoms, || And she reveals her nakedness, || And My soul is alienated from of...
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And she multiplies her whoredoms, || To remember the days of her youth, || When she went whoring in...
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And she lusts on their lovers, || Whose flesh is the flesh of donkeys, || And the emission of horses...
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You look after the wickedness of your youth, || In dealing out of Egypt your loves, || For the sake...
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Therefore, O Aholibah, thus said Lord YHWH: Behold, I am stirring up your lovers against you, || Fro...
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Sons of Babylon, and of all Chaldea, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, || All the sons of Asshur with them,...
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And they have come in against you, || With arms, rider, and wheel, || And with an assembly of people...
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And I have set My jealousy against you, || And they have dealt with you in fury, || They turn aside...
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And they have stripped you of your garments, || And have taken your beautiful jewels.
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And I have caused your wickedness to cease from you, || And your whoredoms out of the land of Egypt,...
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For thus said Lord YHWH: Behold, I am giving you into a hand that you have hated, || Into a hand fro...
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And they have dealt with you in hatred, || And they have taken all your labor, || And they have left...
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To do these things to you, || In your going whoring after nations, || Because you have been defiled...
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You have walked in the way of your sister, || And I have given her cup into your hand.
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Thus said Lord YHWH: You drink the cup of your sister, || The deep and the wide one || (You are for...
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You are filled with drunkenness and sorrow, || A cup of astonishment and desolation, || The cup of y...
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And you have drunk it, and have drained it, || And you gnaw its earthen ware, || And you pluck off y...
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Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH: Because you have forgotten Me, || And you cast Me behind your back,...
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And YHWH says to me, “Son of man, || Do you judge Aholah and Aholibah? Then declare their abominatio...
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For they have committed adultery, || And blood is in their hands, || They committed adultery with th...
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Again, they have done this to Me, || They defiled My sanctuary in that day, || And they have defiled...
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And in their slaughtering their sons to their idols || They also come into My sanctuary in that day...
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And also that they send to men coming from afar, || To whom a messenger is sent, || And behold, they...
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And you have sat on a couch of honor, || And a table arrayed before it, || And placed My incense and...
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And the voice of a multitude at ease is with her, || And Sabeans from the wilderness are brought in...
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And I say of the worn-out one in adulteries, || Now they commit her whoredoms—she also!
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And they come in to her, || As the coming in to a whorish woman, || So they have come in to Aholah,...
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As for righteous men, they judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, || And the judgment of wome...
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For thus said Lord YHWH: Bring up an assembly against them, || And give them to trembling and to spo...
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And they have cast the stone of the assembly at them, || And cut them with their swords, || They sla...
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And I have caused wickedness to cease from the land, || And all the women have been instructed, || A...
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And they have put your wickedness on you, || And you bear the sins of your idols, || And you have kn...
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