30 And you, desolate one, (A)what will you do?
Although you dress in scarlet,
Although you adorn yourself with jewelry of gold,
Although you (B)enlarge your eyes with makeup,
In vain you make yourself beautiful.
Your [a](C)lovers despise you;
They seek your life.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 4:30 Lit paramours

30 What are you doing,(A) you devastated one?
    Why dress yourself in scarlet
    and put on jewels(B) of gold?
Why highlight your eyes with makeup?(C)
    You adorn yourself in vain.
Your lovers(D) despise you;
    they want to kill you.(E)

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40 “Furthermore, [a]they have even sent for men who come from a great distance, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came—for whom you bathed, (A)put makeup on your eyes, and (B)adorned yourselves with jewelry;

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  1. Ezekiel 23:40 Or you (women)

40 “They even sent messengers for men who came from far away,(A) and when they arrived you bathed yourself for them, applied eye makeup(B) and put on your jewelry.(C)

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