Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Ezekiel 23:19 in context
Ezekiel 23:16–22
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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 was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.
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So she uncovered her prostitution and uncovered her nakedness. Then my soul was alienated from her, just like my soul was alienated from her sister.
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Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.
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She lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
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Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the caressing of your nipples by the Egyptians because of your youthful breasts.
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“Therefore, Oholibah, the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side:
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