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Ezekiel 23:11-24 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

11. “Her younger sister Oholibah saw all these things happen. But Oholibah sinned more than her sister did! She was more unfaithful than Oholah.

12. She wanted the Assyrian leaders and officers. She wanted those soldiers in blue uniforms riding their horses. They were all handsome young men.

13. I saw that both women were going to ruin their lives with the same mistakes.

14. “Oholibah continued to be unfaithful to me. In Babylon, she saw pictures of men carved on the walls. These were pictures of Chaldean men wearing their red uniforms.

15. They wore belts around their waists and long turbans on their heads. All those men looked like chariot officers. They all looked like native-born Babylonian men,

16. and Oholibah wanted them.

17. So the Babylonian men came to her bed to have sex with her. They used her and made her so filthy that she became disgusted with them.

18. “Oholibah let everyone see that she was unfaithful. She let so many men enjoy her naked body that I became disgusted with her—just as I had become disgusted with her sister.

19. But Oholibah thought about her time as a prostitute in Egypt when she was young, and she turned to even more prostitution.

20. She remembered the lovers who excited her there, who were like animals in their sexual desires and abilities.

21. “Oholibah, you dreamed of those times when you were young, when your lovers touched and handled your young breasts.

22. So Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You became disgusted with your lovers, but I will bring them here, and they will surround you.

23. I will bring all the men from Babylon, especially the Chaldeans. I will bring the men from Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, and all the men from Assyria. I will bring all the leaders and officers, all those desirable young men, chariot officers, and handpicked soldiers riding their horses.

24. That crowd of men will come to you in large groups, riding on their horses and in their chariots. They will have their spears, shields, and helmets. They will gather around you, and I will tell them what you have done to me. Then they will punish you their own way.