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30 And you, O desolate one,
what do you mean that you dress in crimson,
    that you deck yourself with ornaments of gold,
    that you enlarge your eyes with paint?
In vain you beautify yourself.
    Your lovers despise you;
    they seek your life.(A)

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30 What are you doing,(A) you devastated one?
    Why dress yourself in scarlet
    and put on jewels(B) of gold?
Why highlight your eyes with makeup?(C)
    You adorn yourself in vain.
Your lovers(D) despise you;
    they want to kill you.(E)

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Jezebel’s Violent Death

30 When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out of the window.(A)

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Jezebel Killed

30 Then Jehu went to Jezreel. When Jezebel heard about it, she put on eye makeup,(A) arranged her hair and looked out of a window.

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19 I called to my lovers,
    but they deceived me;
my priests and elders
    perished in the city
while seeking food
    to revive their lives.(A)

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19 “I called to my allies(A)
    but they betrayed me.
My priests and my elders
    perished(B) in the city
while they searched for food
    to keep themselves alive.

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She weeps bitterly in the night,
    with tears on her cheeks;
among all her lovers,
    she has no one to comfort her;
all her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
    they have become her enemies.(A)

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Bitterly she weeps(A) at night,
    tears are on her cheeks.
Among all her lovers(B)
    there is no one to comfort her.
All her friends have betrayed(C) her;
    they have become her enemies.(D)

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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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“Therefore I delivered her into the hands(A) of her lovers,(B) the Assyrians, for whom she lusted.(C) 10 They stripped(D) her naked, took away her sons and daughters and killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women,(E) and punishment was inflicted(F) on her.(G)

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What will you do on the day of punishment,
    in the calamity that will come from far away?
To whom will you flee for help,
    and where will you leave your wealth,(A)

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What will you do on the day of reckoning,(A)
    when disaster(B) comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?(C)
    Where will you leave your riches?

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13 You were in Eden, the garden of God;
    every precious stone was your covering,
carnelian, chrysolite, and moonstone,
    beryl, onyx, and jasper,
sapphire,[a] turquoise, and emerald;
    and worked in gold were your settings
    and your engravings.[b]
On the day that you were created
    they were prepared.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 28.13 Or lapis lazuli
  2. 28.13 Meaning of Heb uncertain

13 You were in Eden,(A)
    the garden of God;(B)
every precious stone(C) adorned you:
    carnelian, chrysolite and emerald,
    topaz, onyx and jasper,
    lapis lazuli, turquoise(D) and beryl.[a]
Your settings and mountings[b] were made of gold;
    on the day you were created they were prepared.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 28:13 The precise identification of some of these precious stones is uncertain.
  2. Ezekiel 28:13 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.

21 What will you say when they set as head over you
    those whom you have trained
    to be your allies?
Will not pangs seize you
    like those of a woman in labor?(A)

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21 What will you say when the Lord sets over you
    those you cultivated as your special allies?(A)
Will not pain grip you
    like that of a woman in labor?(B)

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On that day the inhabitants of this coastland will say, ‘See, this is what has happened to those in whom we hoped and to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! And we, how shall we escape?’ ”(A)

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In that day(A) the people who live on this coast will say, ‘See what has happened(B) to those we relied on,(C) those we fled to for help(D) and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?(E)’”

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13 These are united in yielding their power and authority to the beast;

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13 They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the beast.(A)

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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,(A)

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The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls.(A) She held a golden cup(B) in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries.(C)

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with whom the kings of the earth have engaged in sexual immorality[a] and with the wine of whose prostitution the inhabitants of the earth have become drunk.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 17.2 Or prostitution

With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.”(A)

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how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? It was declared at first through the Lord, and it was confirmed for us by those who heard him,(A)

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how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation?(A) This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord,(B) was confirmed to us by those who heard him.(C)

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