wild, accustomed to the desert, sniffing the wind in her lust — who can control her when she’s in heat? Males seeking her need not weary themselves, for at mating season they will find her.

They have become like well-fed horses, lusty stallions, each one neighing after his neighbor’s wife.

On the hills and in the fields, I have seen your abominations — your adulteries, your lustful neighings your shameless prostitution. Woe to you, Yerushalayim! You refuse to be purified! Won’t you ever allow it?”

“Even when she belonged to me, Oholah prostituted herself; she lusted after her lovers from Ashur — warriors

She gave herself as a whore to them, all of them the elite of Ashur; and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone she lusted after.

“So I handed her over to her lovers, the men of Ashur she lusted after.

“Her sister Oholivah saw this; nevertheless she was worse than her sister in lusting and likewise in whoring.

She lusted after the men from Ashur, governors and rulers, warriors dressed to perfection, skilled horsemen, all of them good-looking young men.

The moment she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in the land of the Kasdim;

and the men of Bavel climbed into her “love bed” and defiled her with their lust. She was defiled by them, and then filled with revulsion at them.

Yes, she lusted after their male prostitutes, whose members are like those of donkeys and who ejaculate like stallions.

For the wicked boasts about his lusts; he blesses greed and despises Adonai.

Don’t let your heart lust after her beauty or allow her glance to captivate you.

A man’s lust is his shame, and a poor man is better than a liar.

“I made a covenant with my eyes not to let them lust after any girl.

How the gold has lost its luster! How the fine gold has changed! How the stones of the sanctuary lie scattered at every streetcorner!

But I tell you that a man who even looks at a woman with the purpose of lusting after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

This is why God has given them up to the vileness of their hearts’ lusts, to the shameful misuse of each other’s bodies.

Therefore, put to death the earthly parts of your nature — sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed (which is a form of idolatry);

without giving in to lustful desires, like the pagans who don’t know God.

For you have spent enough time already living the way the pagans want you to live — in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, wild parties and forbidden idol-worship.

especially those who follow their old natures in lust for filth and who despise authority. Presumptuous and self-willed, these false teachers do not tremble at insulting angelic beings;

The fruits you lusted for with all your heart have gone! All the luxury and flashiness have been destroyed, never to return!