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41 then sat down on an elegant bed. A table was arranged in front of it, on which you set out my incense and oil. 42 The sound of a carefree multitude accompanied her. Men from a multitude of peoples were coming—including Sabeans[a] from the wilderness, adorned[b] with bracelets on their hands and beautiful crowns on their heads.

43 “After she had worn herself out by her adulterous behavior, I asked her, ‘Will they continue with their sexual immorality and with their prostitution?’

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 23:42 Or drunkards
  2. Ezekiel 23:42 Lit. they put

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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