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Ezekiel 23:40-49

Ezekiel 23:40-49 TPT

“Worse still, they sent messengers to summon men from far away to come have sex with them, and they came. To meet your lovers you bathed yourselves, painted your eyes, put on your provocative clothes with your finest jewelry. You reclined on your sumptuous couch with a table spread before you with my aromatic incense and oils. The noise of your party, a carefree crowd, echoed all around—a noisy crowd of drunk nomads! They put bracelets on the women’s arms and magnificent headpieces on their heads. I thought, ‘Isn’t that woman worn out with her adultery? Let them use her as a prostitute—she’s a professional.’ “Yet the men continued to have sex with her as one does with a prostitute, just as they slept with Oholah and Oholibah—those lewd women! But there are righteous men who will declare them guilty of adultery and murder. For they are, indeed, adulteresses and their hands are stained with blood.” Lord YAHWEH says: “Gather a mob to deal with them, to rob and terrorize them! Let the mob stone them and attack them with their swords. Let their sons and daughters be slaughtered and their houses set on fire. This is how I shall purge the land of lewdness so that all women will be warned not to commit prostitution as you have done. And you two sisters, you will be punished as your sins deserve. You will bear the price for your immorality and your vile idolatry. Then you will know that I am Lord YAHWEH.”