15 girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, [a]like the [b]Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth. 16 [c]When she saw them she (A)lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. 17 The [d](B)Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their harlotry. And when she had been defiled by them, [e]she became disgusted with them.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 23:15 Lit the likeness of
  2. Ezekiel 23:15 Lit sons of Babel
  3. Ezekiel 23:16 Lit At the sight of her eyes
  4. Ezekiel 23:17 Lit sons of Babel
  5. Ezekiel 23:17 Lit her soul