Lexham English Bible

Ezekiel 23:6-15 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

6. clothed in blue cloth, governors and prefects, handsome young men and all of them horsemen, experts on horseback.

7. And she bestowed her fornication on them, on the choice ones of the Assyrians, all of them, and with every one after which she lusted; with all of their idols she defiled herself.

8. And her whorings from the time of Egypt she did not abandon, for they slept with her in her childhood, and they caressed the bosoms of her virginity, and they poured out their fornication on her.

9. Therefore I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians after whom she lusted.

10. They uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters, and they killed her with the sword. And she became a name for the women, and they executed judgments against her.

11. “And though Oholibah her sister saw, yet in her lust she behaved more corruptly than her, and her whoring was more than the prostitution of her sister.

12. She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and prefects, warriors clothed in perfection, expert horsemen, all of them handsome young men.

13. And I saw that she was defiled; they had both taken the same path!

14. And she increased her whorings, and she saw men carved on the wall, images of Chaldeans carved in red,

15. belted with a belt at their waist with turbans on their heads, all of them giving the appearance of adjutants, the image of the Babylonians; Chaldea was the land of their birth.