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Ezekiel 23:41-49

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41 They sat on a fine bed with a table set before it, on which they put my incense and my oil.
41 You sat on an elegant couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed the incense and olive oil that belonged to me.
42 "There was the noise of a reckless crowd in the city. Common people gathered, and drunkards were brought from the desert. They put bracelets on the wrists of the two sisters and beautiful crowns on their heads.
42 “The noise of a carefree crowd was around her; drunkards were brought from the desert along with men from the rabble, and they put bracelets on the wrists of the woman and her sister and beautiful crowns on their heads.
43 Then I said about the one who was worn out by her acts of adultery, 'Let them continue their sexual sins with her. She is nothing but a prostitute.'
43 Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, ‘Now let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is.’
44 They kept going to her as they would go to a prostitute. So they continued to go to Samaria and Jerusalem, these shameful women.
44 And they slept with her. As men sleep with a prostitute, so they slept with those lewd women, Oholah and Oholibah.
45 But men who do right will punish them as they punish women who take part in adultery and who murder people, because they are guilty of adultery and murder.
45 But righteous judges will sentence them to the punishment of women who commit adultery and shed blood, because they are adulterous and blood is on their hands.
46 "This is what the Lord God says: Bring together a mob against Samaria and Jerusalem, and hand them over to be frightened and robbed.
46 “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Bring a mob against them and give them over to terror and plunder.
47 Let the mob kill them by throwing stones at them, and let them cut them down with their swords. Let them kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses down.
47 The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.
48 "So I will put an end to sexual sins in the land. Then all women will be warned, and they will not do the sexual sins you have done.
48 “So I will put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not imitate you.
49 You will be punished for your sexual sins and the sin of worshiping idols. Then you will know that I am the Lord God."
49 You will suffer the penalty for your lewdness and bear the consequences of your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.”
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