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41 You sat on an expensive couch. In front of it you set a table, on which you placed my incense and my perfumed oil.

42 The noise of a carefree crowd surrounded her. In addition to the large throng of all kinds of men, they even brought drunkards[a] from the desert. They put bracelets on their arms and beautiful crowns on their heads. 43 Then I said about the woman worn out with adulteries, “Let them keep using her as a whore because that is what she is.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 23:42 Or Sabeans
  2. Ezekiel 23:43 The verse is obscure. Literally the Hebrew reads now her whoredom itself will go whoring, and she.

41 You sat on an elegant couch,(A) with a table(B) spread before it on which you had placed the incense(C) and olive oil that belonged to me.(D)

42 “The noise of a carefree(E) crowd was around her; drunkards(F) were brought from the desert along with men from the rabble, and they put bracelets(G) on the wrists of the woman and her sister and beautiful crowns on their heads.(H) 43 Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, ‘Now let them use her as a prostitute,(I) for that is all she is.’

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