Ezekiel 23:36
NASB
Ezek 23:36
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Moreover, the LORD said to me, "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.
Ezek 23:37
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~"For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. Thus they have committed adultery with their idols and even caused their sons, whom they bore to Me, to pass through {the fire} to them as food.
Ezek 23:38
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~"Again, they have done this to Me: they have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and have profaned My sabbaths.
Ezek 23:39
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~"For when they had slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary on the same day to profane it; and lo, thus they did within My house.
Ezek 23:40
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"Furthermore, they have even sent for men who come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and lo, they came--for whom you bathed, painted your eyes and decorated yourselves with ornaments;
Ezek 23:41
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and you sat on a splendid couch with a table arranged before it on which you had set My incense and My oil.
Ezek 23:42
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~"The sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and drunkards were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort. And they put bracelets on the hands of the women and beautiful crowns on their heads.
Ezek 23:43
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"Then I said concerning her who was worn out by adulteries, `Will they now commit adultery with her when she is {thus?}'
Ezek 23:44
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~"But they went in to her as they would go in to a harlot. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.
Ezek 23:45
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~"But they, righteous men, will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.
Ezek 23:46
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"For thus says the Lord GOD, `Bring up a company against them and give them over to terror and plunder.
Ezek 23:47
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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.
Ezek 23:48
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~`Thus I will make lewdness cease from the land, that all women may be admonished and not commit lewdness as you have done.
Ezek 23:49
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~`Your lewdness will be requited upon you, and you will bear the penalty of {worshiping} your idols; thus you will know that I am the Lord GOD."'
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