Thus she committed her whoredom with them, even with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted, and defiled herself with all their idols.

Neither left she her fornications, learned of the Egyptians: for in her youth they [a]lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.

Wherefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, even into the hands of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 23:8 The holy Ghost useth these terms which seem strange to chaste ears, to cause this wicked vice of idolatry so to be abhorred, that […] any should abide to hear the name thereof.

She gave herself as a prostitute to all the elite of the Assyrians and defiled herself with all the idols of everyone she lusted after.(A) She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt,(B) when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.(C)

“Therefore I delivered her into the hands(D) of her lovers,(E) the Assyrians, for whom she lusted.(F)

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