She hasn’t left her prostitution since leaving Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her. They caressed her youthful nipples and they poured out their prostitution on her.
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Ezekiel 23:8 in context
Ezekiel 23:5–11
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“Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,
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who were clothed with blue—governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
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She gave herself as a prostitute to them, all of them the choicest men of Assyria. She defiled herself with the idols of whomever she lusted after.
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She hasn’t left her prostitution since leaving Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her. They caressed her youthful nipples and they poured out their prostitution on her.
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“Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians on whom she doted.
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These uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters, and they killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.
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“Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lusting than she, and in her prostitution which was more depraved than the prostitution of her sister.
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