Verse 22
Ezekiel 23:22
Bible in Basic English
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For this cause, O Oholibah, this is what the Lord has said: See, I will make your lovers come up against you, even those from whom your soul is turned away in disgust; and I will make them come up against you on every side;
Original Language Text
hebrew
לָ/כֵ֣ן אָהֳלִיבָ֗ה כֹּֽה אָמַר֮ אֲדֹנָ֣/י יְהוִה֒ הִנְ/נִ֨י מֵעִ֤יר אֶת מְאַהֲבַ֨יִ/ךְ֙ עָלַ֔יִ/ךְ אֵ֛ת אֲשֶׁר נָקְעָ֥ה נַפְשֵׁ֖/ךְ מֵ/הֶ֑ם וַ/הֲבֵאתִ֥י/ם עָלַ֖יִ/ךְ מִ/סָּבִֽיב
English Translation
Therefore, I will allure her; thus says my Lord, Yahweh: Behold, I am awakening your love upon you, that which has struck your soul from them, and I will bring them upon you from all around.
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Chapter 23 Context
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The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,
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Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother:
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They were acting like loose women in Egypt; when they were young their behaviour was loose: there th...
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Their names were Oholah, the older, and Oholibah, her sister: and they became mine, and gave birth t...
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And Oholah was untrue to me when she was mine; she was full of desire for her lovers, even for the A...
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Who were clothed in blue, captains and rulers, all of them young men to be desired, horsemen seated...
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And she gave her unclean love to them, all of them the noblest men of Assyria: and she made herself...
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And she has not given up her loose ways from the time when she was in Egypt; for when she was young...
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For this cause I gave her up into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians on whom h...
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By these her shame was uncovered: they took her sons and daughters and put her to death with the swo...
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And her sister Oholibah saw this, but her desire was even more unmeasured, and her loose behaviour w...
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She was full of desire for the Assyrians, captains and rulers, her neighbours, clothed in blue, hors...
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And I saw that she had become unclean; the two of them went the same way.
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And her loose behaviour became worse; for she saw men pictured on a wall, pictures of the Chaldaeans...
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With bands round their bodies and with head-dresses hanging round their heads, all of them looking l...
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And when she saw them she was full of desire for them, and sent servants to them in Chaldaea.
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And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and made her unclean with their loose desire,...
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So her loose behaviour was clearly seen and her shame uncovered: then my soul was turned from her as...
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But still she went on the more with her loose behaviour, keeping in mind the early days when she had...
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And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is...
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And she made the memory of the loose ways of her early years come back to mind, when her young breas...
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For this cause, O Oholibah, this is what the Lord has said: See, I will make your lovers come up aga...
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The Babylonians and all the Chaldaeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: you...
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And they will come against you from the north on horseback, with war-carriages and a great band of p...
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And my bitter feeling will be working against you, and they will take you in hand with passion; they...
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And they will take all your clothing off you and take away your ornaments.
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So I will put an end to your evil ways and your loose behaviour which came from the land of Egypt: a...
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For this is what the Lord has said: See, I will give you up into the hands of those who are hated by...
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And they will take you in hand with hate, and take away all the fruit of your work, and let you be u...
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They will do these things to you because you have been untrue to me, and have gone after the nations...
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You have gone in the way of your sister; and I will give her cup into your hand.
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This is what the Lord has said: You will take a drink from your sister's cup, which is deep and wide...
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You will be broken and full of sorrow, with the cup of wonder and destruction, with the cup of your...
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And after drinking it and draining it out, you will take the last drops of it to the end, pulling of...
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So this is what the Lord has said: Because you have not kept me in your memory, and because your bac...
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Then the Lord said to me: Son of man, will you be the judge of Oholibah? then make clear to her the...
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For she has been false to me, and blood is on her hands, and with her images she has been untrue; an...
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Further, this is what she has done to me: she has made my holy place unclean and has made my Sabbath...
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For when she had made an offering of her children to her images, she came into my holy place to make...
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And she even sent for men to come from far away, to whom a servant was sent, and they came: for whom...
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And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put ready before it on which she put my perfume a...
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... and they put jewels on her hands and beautiful crowns on her head.
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Then I said ... now she will go on with her loose ways.
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And they went in to her, as men go to a loose woman: so they went in to Oholibah, the loose woman.
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And upright men will be her judges, judging her as false wives and women who take lives are judged;...
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For this is what the Lord has said: I will make a great meeting of the people come together against...
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And the meeting, after stoning her with stones, will put an end to her with their swords; they will...
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And I will put an end to evil in all the land, teaching all women not to do as you have done.
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And I will send on you the punishment of your evil ways, and you will be rewarded for your sins with...
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