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14-15 “She sank deeper and deeper in her immorality. She was attracted by the images of high Babylonian officials carved into the wall and painted bright red, with sashes around their waists and fancy turbans on their heads. 16 As soon as she saw them, she was filled with lust and sent messengers to them in Babylonia. 17 The Babylonians came to have sex with her. They used her and defiled her so much that finally she became disgusted with them.

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15 with belts(A) around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea.[a] 16 As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers(B) to them in Chaldea.(C) 17 Then the Babylonians(D) came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 23:15 Or Babylonia; also in verse 16