The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 23:15 (NIV)

with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers,
natives of Chaldea.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 23:16 (NIV)

As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

 

[LoveinChrist]

Ezekiel 23:17 (NKJV)

"Then the [c]Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love,
And they defiled her with their immorality;
So she was defiled by them, and alienated herself from them.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 23:18 (NIV)

When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her naked body, I turned away from her in disgust,
just as I had turned away from her sister.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 23:19 (NIV)

Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 23:20 (ESV)
and lusted after her lovers there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 23:21 (NKJV)
Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth, When the Egyptians pressed your bosom Because of your youthful breasts.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 23:22 (NKJV)
“Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Behold, I will stir up your lovers against you, From whom you have alienated yourself, And I will bring them against you from every side:

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 23:23 (NIV)

the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, the men of Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, handsome young men, all of them governors and commanders, chariot officers and men of high rank, all mounted on horses.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 23:24 (NIV)

They will come against you with weapons, chariots and wagons and with a throng of people; they will take up positions against you on every side with large and small shields and with helmets. I will turn you over to them for punishment, and they will punish you according to their standards.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 23:25 (NKJV)
I will set My jealousy against you, And they shall deal furiously with you; They shall remove your nose and your ears, And your remnant shall fall by the sword; They shall take your sons and your daughters, And your remnant shall be devoured by fire.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 23:26 (NKJV)
They shall also strip you of your clothes And take away your beautiful jewelry.

 

[LoveinChrist]

Ezekiel 23:27 (NKJV)

‘Thus I will make you cease your lewdness and your harlotry
Brought from the land of Egypt,
So that you will not lift your eyes to them,
Nor remember Egypt anymore.’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 23:28 (CSB)

“For this is what the Lord God says: I am going to hand you over to those you hate,
to those you turned away from in disgust.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 23:29 (CSB)

They will treat you with hatred, take all you have worked for, and leave you stark naked, so that the shame
of your debauchery will be exposed, both your depravity and promiscuity.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 23:30 (NKJV)
I will do these things to you because you have gone as a harlot after the Gentiles, because you have become defiled by their idols.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 23:31 (NKJV)
You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will put her cup in your hand.’

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 23:32 (NKJV)
“Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘You shall drink of your sister’s cup, The deep and wide one; You shall be laughed to scorn And held in derision; It contains much.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 23:33 (NIV)

You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, the cup of ruin and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 23:34 (NIV)

You will drink it and drain it dry and chew on its pieces—and you will tear your breasts.
I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.