37 For they have committed adultery, and (A)blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and even sacrificed their sons (B)whom they bore to Me, passing them through the fire, to devour them. 38 Moreover they have done this to Me: They have (C)defiled My sanctuary on the same day and (D)profaned My Sabbaths. 39 For after they had slain their children for their idols, on the same day they came into My sanctuary to profane it; and indeed (E)thus they have done in the midst of My house.

40 “Furthermore you sent for men to come from afar, (F)to whom a messenger was sent; and there they came. And you (G)washed yourself for them, (H)painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments. 41 You sat on a stately (I)couch, with a table prepared before it, (J)on which you had set My incense and My oil. 42 The sound of a carefree multitude was with her, and [a]Sabeans were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort, who put bracelets on their [b]wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads. 43 Then I said concerning her who had grown old in adulteries, ‘Will they commit harlotry with her now, and she with them?

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 23:42 Or drunkards
  2. Ezekiel 23:42 Lit. hands

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