15 (A)“But you trusted in your beauty (B)and played the whore[a] because of your renown (C)and lavished your whorings[b] on any passerby; your beauty[c] became his.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:15 Or were unfaithful; also verses 16, 17, 26, 28
  2. Ezekiel 16:15 Or unfaithfulness; also verses 20, 22, 25, 26, 29, 33, 34, 36
  3. Ezekiel 16:15 Hebrew it

25 At the head of every street (A)you built your lofty place and made (B)your beauty an abomination, (C)offering yourself[a] to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.

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  1. Ezekiel 16:25 Hebrew spreading your legs

20 “For long ago I (A)broke your yoke
    and burst your bonds;
    but you said, (B)‘I will not serve.’
Yes, (C)on every high hill
    and under every green tree
    you bowed down (D)like a whore.

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Behind the door and the doorpost
    you have set up your memorial;
for, deserting me, (A)you have uncovered your bed,
    you have gone up to it,
    (B)you have made it wide;
and you have made a covenant for yourself with them,
    you have loved their bed,
    you have looked on nakedness.[a]

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  1. Isaiah 57:8 Or on a monument (see 56:5); Hebrew on a hand

(A)They played the whore in Egypt; (B)they played the whore (C)in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms[a] handled.

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  1. Ezekiel 23:3 Hebrew nipples; also verses 8, 21

(A)Do not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’

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Hosea's Wife and Children

When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, (A)“Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have (B)children of whoredom, for (C)the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.”

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She did not give up her whoring (A)that she had begun in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their whoring lust upon her.

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The Unfaithful City

21 How the faithful city
    (A)has become a whore,[a]
    (B)she who was full of justice!
Righteousness lodged in her,
    but now murderers.

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  1. Isaiah 1:21 Or become unchaste

And on her forehead was written a name of (A)mystery: (B)“Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.”

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And do not presume to say to yourselves, (A)‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from (B)these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

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11 (A)“On that day (B)you shall not be put to shame
    because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me;
for then (C)I will remove from your midst
    your proudly exultant ones,
and (D)you shall no longer be haughty
    in my holy mountain.

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11 (A)Its heads give judgment for a bribe;
    (B)its priests teach for a price;
    (C)its prophets practice divination for money;
(D)yet they lean on the Lord and (E)say,
    “Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
    (F)No disaster shall come upon us.”

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10 (A)They shall eat, but not be satisfied;
    they shall play the whore, but not multiply,
because they have forsaken the Lord
    to cherish

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13 Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet (A)if he trusts in his righteousness and does injustice, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his injustice that he has done he shall die.

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and say to Tyre, who dwells at (A)the entrances to the sea, (B)merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, thus says the Lord God:

“O Tyre, you have said,
    ‘I am (C)perfect in beauty.’

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11 (A)“Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became (B)more corrupt than her sister[a] in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister. 12 She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, (C)all of them desirable young men. 13 And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way. 14 But she carried her whoring further. She saw men (D)portrayed on the wall, the (E)images of (F)the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion, 15 wearing belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, a likeness of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea. 16 When she saw them, she lusted after them and (G)sent messengers to them (H)in Chaldea. 17 And the Babylonians came to her (I)into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, (J)she turned from them in disgust. 18 When she carried on her whoring so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister. 19 Yet she increased her whoring, (K)remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt 20 and lusted after her lovers there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses. 21 Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed[b] your young breasts.”

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  1. Ezekiel 23:11 Hebrew than she
  2. Ezekiel 23:21 Vulgate, Syriac; Hebrew bosom for the sake of

(A)But they rebelled against me and were not willing to listen to me. (B)None of them cast away the detestable things their eyes feasted on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt.

“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them (C)and spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

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36 Thus says the Lord God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, (A)and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them, 37 therefore, behold, (B)I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and (C)all those you hated. (D)I will gather them against you from every side (E)and will uncover your nakedness to them, that (F)they may see all your nakedness.

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(A)“If[a] a man divorces his wife
    and she goes from him
and becomes another man's wife,
    will he return to her?
(B)Would not that land be greatly polluted?
(C)You have played the whore with many lovers;
    and would you return to me?
declares the Lord.

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  1. Jeremiah 3:1 Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew Saying, “If

Israel Refined for God's Glory

48 Hear this, O house of Jacob,
    (A)who are called by the name of Israel,
    and (B)who came from the waters of Judah,
(C)who swear by the name of the Lord
    and confess the God of Israel,
    but not in truth or right.

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35 but they (A)mixed with the nations
    and learned to do as they did.

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For he rebuilt the high places (A)that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made (B)an Asherah, (C)as Ahab king of Israel had done, (D)and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

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Exile Because of Idolatry

And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, (A)who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods

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28 So the king took counsel and (A)made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. (B)Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

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