30 “How sick is your heart,[a] declares the Lord God, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:30 Revocalization yields How I am filled with anger against you

(A)Therefore the showers have been withheld,
    and the spring rain has not come;
yet you have (B)the forehead of a whore;
    you refuse to be ashamed.

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22 “For (A)my people are foolish;
    they know me not;
they are stupid children;
    they have no understanding.
(B)They are ‘wise’—in doing evil!
    But how to do good they know not.”

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For the look on their faces bears witness against them;
    they proclaim their sin (A)like Sodom;
    they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
    (B)For they have brought evil on themselves.

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The ox (A)knows its owner,
    and the donkey its master's crib,
but Israel does (B)not know,
    my people do not understand.”

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The Way of Folly

13 (A)The woman Folly is (B)loud;
    she is seductive[a] and (C)knows nothing.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 9:13 Or full of simpleness

The Great Prostitute and the Beast

17 Then (A)one of the seven angels who had (B)the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of (C)the great prostitute (D)who is seated on many waters, (E)with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and (F)with the wine of whose sexual immorality (G)the dwellers on earth have become drunk.” And (H)he carried me away in the Spirit (I)into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on (J)a scarlet beast that was full of (K)blasphemous names, and (L)it had seven heads and ten horns. The woman (M)was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned (N)with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand (O)a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on her forehead was written a name of (P)mystery: (Q)“Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.” And I saw the woman, drunk (R)with the blood of the saints, the blood of (S)the martyrs of Jesus.[a]

When I saw her, I marveled greatly.

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  1. Revelation 17:6 Greek the witnesses to Jesus

12 Be appalled, (A)O heavens, at this;
    be shocked, be utterly desolate,
declares the Lord,
13 for my people have committed two evils:
(B)they have forsaken (C)me,
    the fountain of (D)living waters,
and hewed out cisterns for themselves,
    broken cisterns that can hold no water.

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21 With much seductive speech she persuades him;
    with (A)her smooth talk she compels him.

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11 She is (A)loud and (B)wayward;
    (C)her feet do not stay at home;
12 now in the street, now in the market,
    and (D)at every corner she (E)lies in wait.
13 She seizes him and kisses him,
    and with (F)bold face she says to him,

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15 And she said to him, (A)“How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me where your great strength lies.” 16 And (B)when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.

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