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Ezekiel 23:16

Verse 16 of 49. The 23rd of 48 chapters in Ezekiel, in The Major Prophets.

12She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers—her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

13I saw that she was defiled. They both went the same way.

14“She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with red,

15dressed with belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like princes, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

16As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

17The 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.

18So she uncovered her prostitution and uncovered her nakedness. Then my soul was alienated from her, just like my soul was alienated from her sister.

19Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.

20She 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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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.