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41 You sat with them on a beautifully embroidered couch and put my incense and my special oil on a table that was spread before you. 42 From your room came the sound of many men carousing. They were lustful men and drunkards[a] from the wilderness, who put bracelets on your wrists and beautiful crowns on your heads. 43 Then I said, ‘If they really want to have sex with old worn-out prostitutes like these, let them!’

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  1. 23:42 Or Sabeans.

41 You sat on an elegant couch,(A) with a table(B) spread before it on which you had placed the incense(C) and olive oil that belonged to me.(D)

42 “The noise of a carefree(E) crowd was around her; drunkards(F) were brought from the desert along with men from the rabble, and they put bracelets(G) on the wrists of the woman and her sister and beautiful crowns on their heads.(H) 43 Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, ‘Now let them use her as a prostitute,(I) for that is all she is.’

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