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Ezekiel 23:18

¹⁶ At the sight of them, she lusted for them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

¹⁷ Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. But after she had been defiled by them, she turned away in disgust.

When Oholibah openly prostituted herself and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.

¹⁹ Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt

²⁰ and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: When Oholibah openly prostituted herself and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.
KJV: So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
WEB: So she uncovered her prostitution and uncovered her nakedness. Then my soul was alienated from her, just like my soul was alienated from her sister.
ASV: So she uncovered her whoredoms, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.
DARBY: And she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness; and my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.
BLB: And she uncovered her prostitutions, and she uncovered her nakedness, and I dislocated My soul from her, as I had dislocated My soul from her sister.

ÅB: Da hun drev sitt hor så åpenbart og avdekket sin blusel, vendte min sjel seg bort fra henne, slik som min sjel hadde vendt seg bort fra hennes søster.
OTB: Hun blottet sine skamløse handlinger og sin nakenhet; derfor vendte jeg meg bort fra henne i avsky, slik jeg hadde vendt meg bort fra hennes søster.
B1930: Da hun drev sitt hor så åpenbart og avdekket sin blusel, vendte min sjel sig bort fra henne, likesom min sjel hadde vendt sig bort fra hennes søster.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Psalms 106:40
So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.
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Jeremiah 12:8
My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.
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Psalms 78:59
On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
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Jeremiah 6:8
Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”
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Jeremiah 8:12
Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.
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Ezekiel 21:24
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have drawn attention to your guilt, exposing your transgressions, so that your sins are revealed in all your deeds—because you have come to remembrance—you shall be taken in hand.
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Amos 5:21
“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
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Jeremiah 15:1
Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go.
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