Ezekiel 23:21

21 So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.^[a]

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Ezekiel 23:21 in Other Translations

KJV

21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

ESV

21 Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed your young breasts.

NLT

21 And so, Oholibah, you relived your former days as a young girl in Egypt, when you first allowed your breasts to be fondled.

MSG

21 She longed for the sexual prowess of her youth back in Egypt, where her firm young breasts were caressed and fondled

CSB

21 So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your nipples to enjoy your youthful breasts.

Ezekiel 23:21 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 23:21

Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth,
&c.] By committing the same; the same idolatries their fathers committed in Egypt they now committed, being in alliance with the same people: or, thou causest to be visited the lewdness of thy youth
^F1; by the Lord, who remembered their sins, and punished them for them: in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth:
committing spiritual fornication, that is, idolatry with them; signified by pressing and bruising the breasts and paps of virgins, by corporeal fornication with them.

FOOTNOTES:

F1 (Kyrwen tmz ta ydqptw) "et visitasti scelus adolescestiae, vel pueritiae tuae", Piscator, Starckius; i.e. "visitari fecisti a Deo", a Lapide.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Ezekiel 23:21 In-Context

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.

20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

21 So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.

22 “Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will stir up your lovers against you, those you turned away from in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side—

23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, the men of Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, handsome young men, all of them governors and commanders, chariot officers and men of high rank, all mounted on horses.

Cross References 1

1. S Ezekiel 16:26

Footnotes 1

[a]. Syriac (see also verse 3); Hebrew "caressed because of your young breasts"