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Ezekiel 23:36-44 English Standard Version (ESV)

36. The Lord said to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations.

37. For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.

38. Moreover, this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my Sabbaths.

39. For when they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, this is what they did in my house.

40. They even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.

41. You sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.

42. The sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and with men of the common sort, drunkards were brought from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands of the women, and beautiful crowns on their heads.

43. “Then I said of her who was worn out by adultery, Now they will continue to use her for a whore, even her!

44. For they have gone in to her, as men go in to a prostitute. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, lewd women!