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Ezekiel 16:26

Verse 26 of 63. The 16th of 48 chapters in Ezekiel, in The Major Prophets.

22In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were wallowing in your blood.

23“‘“It has happened after all your wickedness—woe, woe to you!” says the Lord GOD—

24“that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street.

25You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.

26You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.

27See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your portion, and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.

28You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute with them, and yet you weren’t satisfied.

29You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren’t satisfied with this.

30“‘“How weak is your heart,” says the Lord GOD, “since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;

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