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and they played the harlot in Egypt. They played the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and there their virginbosom was handled.
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"Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister. And they became Mine, and they boresons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah and Jerusalem is Oholibah
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"She bestowed her harlotries on them, all of whom were the choicestmen of Assyria; and with allwhom she lusted after, with all their idols she defiled herself.
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"She did not forsake her harlotries from the time in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her, and they handled her virginbosom and poured out their lust on her.
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"They uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters, but they slew her with the sword. Thus she became a byword among women, and they executedjudgments on her.
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"She lustedafter the Assyrians, governors and officials, the onesnear, magnificentlydressed, horsemenriding on horses, all of them desirableyoungmen.
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girded with belts on their loins, with flowingturbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, like the Babylonians* in Chaldea, the land of their birth.
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"The Babylonians*came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their harlotry. And when she had beendefiled by them, she becamedisgusted with them.
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"Therefore, O Oholibah, thussays the LordGOD, 'Behold I will arouse your loversagainst you, from whom you were alienated, and I will bring them against you from everyside:
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the Babylonians* and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; desirableyoungmen, governors and officialsall of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.
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'They will comeagainst you with weapons, chariots and wagons, and with a company of peoples. They will set themselves against you on everyside with buckler and shield and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they will judge you according to their customs.
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'I will set My jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in wrath. They will remove your nose and your ears; and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and your survivors will be consumed by the fire.
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'Thus I will make your lewdness and your harlotry brought from the land of Egypt to cease from you, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them or rememberEgyptanymore.'
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'They will deal with you in hatred, takeall your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your harlotries will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your harlotries.
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"Therefore, thussays the LordGOD, 'Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, bearnow the punishment of your lewdness and your harlotries.' "
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"For they have committedadultery, and blood is on their hands. Thus they have committedadultery with their idols and even caused their sons, whom they bore to Me, to passthrough the fire to them as food.
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"For when they had slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary on the sameday to profane it; and lo, thus they didwithin My house.
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"Furthermore, they have evensent for men who come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and lo, they came -for whom you bathed, painted your eyes and decoratedyourselves with ornaments;
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"The sound of a carefreemultitude was with her; and drunkards were brought from the wilderness with men of the common*sort*. And they putbracelets on the hands of the women and beautifulcrowns on their heads.
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"But they, righteousmen, will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shedblood, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.
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'The company will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will slay their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire.