Neither left she her fornications, learned of the Egyptians: for in her youth they [a]lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.

Wherefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, even into the hands of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

10 These discovered her shame: they took away her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword, and she had an evil name among women: for [b]they had executed judgment upon her.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 23:8 The holy Ghost useth these terms which seem strange to chaste ears, to cause this wicked vice of idolatry so to be abhorred, that […] any should abide to hear the name thereof.
  2. Ezekiel 23:10 Meaning, the Assyrians.

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