Ezekiel 16:25
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25 at the head of every street you built your lofty place and prostituted your beauty, offering yourself[a] to every passer-by and multiplying your prostitution.(A)
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- 16.25 Heb spreading your legs
Ezekiel 16:31
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31 building your platform at the head of every street and making your lofty place in every square! Yet you were not like a prostitute because you scorned payment.
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Jeremiah 3:2
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2 Look up to the bare heights[a] and see!
Where have you not been lain with?
By the waysides you sat waiting for lovers,
like a nomad in the wilderness.
You have polluted the land
with your prostitutions and wickedness.(A)
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- 3.2 Or the trails
Revelation 17:16
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16 And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the whore;[a] they will make her desolate and naked; they will devour her flesh and burn her up with fire.(A)
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- 17.16 Or prostitute
Revelation 17:12-13
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12 And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they are to receive authority as kings for one hour, together with the beast.(A) 13 These are united in yielding their power and authority to the beast;
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Revelation 17:1-5
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The Great Whore and the Beast
17 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great whore[a] who is seated on many waters,(A) 2 with whom the kings of the earth have engaged in sexual immorality[b] and with the wine of whose prostitution the inhabitants of the earth have become drunk.”(B) 3 So he carried me away in the spirit[c] into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns.(C) 4 The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her prostitution,(D) 5 and on her forehead was written a name, a mystery: “Babylon the great, mother[d] of whores[e] and of earth’s abominations.”(E)
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Ezekiel 23:32
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32 Thus says the Lord God:
You shall drink your sister’s cup,
deep and wide;
it will bring scorn and derision;
it holds so much.(A)
Ezekiel 23:9-10
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9 Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, for whom she lusted.(A) 10 These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters, and they killed her with the sword. Judgment was executed upon her, and she became a byword among women.(B)
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Ezekiel 16:15
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15 But you trusted in your beauty and prostituted yourself because of your fame and lavished your prostitutions on any passer-by.[a](A)
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- 16.15 Heb adds Let it be his
Jeremiah 6:15
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15 They acted shamefully; they committed abomination,
yet they were not ashamed;
they did not know how to blush.
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown,
says the Lord.
Jeremiah 2:23-24
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23 How can you say, “I am not defiled;
I have not gone after the Baals”?
Look at your way in the valley;
know what you have done:
a restive young camel interlacing her tracks,(A)
24 a wild ass at home in the wilderness
in her heat sniffing the wind!
Who can restrain her lust?
None who seek her need weary themselves;
in her month they will find her.(B)
Isaiah 3:9
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9 The look on their faces bears witness against them;
they proclaim their sin like Sodom;
they do not hide it.
Woe to them,
for they have brought evil on themselves.(A)
Proverbs 9:14-15
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14 She sits at the door of her house,
on a seat at the high places of the town,
15 calling to those who pass by,
who are going straight on their way,
Genesis 38:21
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21 He asked the townspeople, “Where is the prostitute who was at Enaim by the wayside?” But they said, “No prostitute has been here.”
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Genesis 38:14
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14 she put off her widow’s garments, put on a veil, wrapped herself up, and sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. She saw that Shelah was grown up, yet she had not been given to him in marriage.(A)
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