Holman Christian Standard Bible

Ezekiel 23:16-22 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

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

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

18. When she flaunted her promiscuity and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust just as I turned away from her sister.

19. Yet she multiplied her acts of promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth when she acted like a prostitute in the land of Egypt

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

21. So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your nipples to enjoy your youthful breasts.

22. “Therefore Oholibah, this is what the Lord God says: I am going to incite your lovers against you, those you turned away from in disgust. I will bring them against you from every side: