Add parallel Print Page Options

She did not abandon the prostitution she had practiced in Egypt, for in her youth men went to bed[a] with her, fondled her virgin breasts, and ravished her.[b] Therefore I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians[c] for whom she lusted. 10 They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. She became notorious[d] among women, and they executed judgments against her.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 23:8 tn Heb “lied down with.” The verb שָׁכַב (shakav) “to lie down” can imply going to bed to sleep or be a euphemism for sexual relations.
  2. Ezekiel 23:8 tn Heb “and poured out their harlotry on her.”
  3. Ezekiel 23:9 tn Heb “I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the sons of Assyria.”
  4. Ezekiel 23:10 tn Heb “name.”