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Ezekiel 23:6-13 English Standard Version (ESV)

6. clothed in purple, governors and commanders, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

7. She bestowed her whoring upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone after whom she lusted.

8. She did not give up her whoring that she had begun in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their whoring lust upon her.

9. Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted.

10. These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became a byword among women, when judgment had been executed on her.

11. “Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became more corrupt than her sister in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister.

12. She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

13. And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way.