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Ezekiel 23:21 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the caressing of your nipples by the Egyptians because of your youthful breasts. "
Ezekiel 23:21
Verse in Context
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19 Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.
20 She lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
21 Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the caressing of your nipples by the Egyptians because of your youthful breasts.
22 “Therefore, Oholibah, the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side:
23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; all of them desirable young men, governors and rulers, princes and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.
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Ezekiel 23:1
"The LORD’s word came again to me, saying,"
Ezekiel 23:2
"“Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother."
Ezekiel 23:3
"They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their youthful nipples were caressed there."
Ezekiel 23:4
"Their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah."
Ezekiel 23:5
"“Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,"
Ezekiel 23:6
"who were clothed with blue—governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses."
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