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29 They shall treat you with hatred, seizing all that you worked for and leaving you stark naked, so that your indecent nakedness is exposed.(A) Your depravity and prostitution 30 brought these things upon you because you served as a prostitute for the nations, defiling yourself with their idols.(B)

31 Because you followed your sister’s path, I will put her cup into your hand.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. 23:31 The cup is a metaphor for divine punishment, the lot of all who rebel against the Lord (cf. Ps 75:9; Jer 25:15–16; 51:7; Is 51:21–23; Lam 4:21; Hb 2:15–16).

29 They will deal with you in hatred and take away everything you have worked for. They will leave you stark naked,(A) and the shame of your prostitution will be exposed.(B) Your lewdness(C) and promiscuity(D) 30 have brought this on you, because you lusted after the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.(E) 31 You have gone the way of your sister; so I will put her cup(F) into your hand.(G)

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