Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Ezechiel 23:15-23 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

15. And girded with girdles about their reins, and with dyed turbans on their heads, the resemblance of all the captains, the likeness of the sons of Babylon, and of the land of the Chaldeans wherein they were born,

16. She doted upon them with the lust of her eyes, and she sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

17. And when the sons of Babylon were come to her to the bed of love, they defiled her with their fornications, and she was polluted by them, and her soul was glutted with them.

18. And she discovered her fornications, and discovered her disgrace: and my soul was alienated from her, as my soul was alienated from her sister.

19. For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her youth, in which she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

20. And she was mad with lust after lying with them whose flesh is as the flesh of asses: and whose issue as the issue of horses.

21. And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when thy breasts were pressed in Egypt, and the papa of thy virginity broken.

22. Therefore, Ooliba, thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will raise up against thee all thy lovers with whom thy soul hath been glutted: and I will gather them together against thee round about.

23. The children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, the nobles, and the kings, and princes, all the sons of the Assyrians, beautiful young men, all the captains, and rulers, the princes of princes, and the renowned horsemen.