🔥WEB · Ezekiel 23:9
What does Ezekiel 23:9 mean?
"“Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted."
— Ezekiel 23:9 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
She gave herself as a prostitute to them, all of them the choicest men of Assyria. She defiled herself with the idols of whoever she lusted after.
She hasn’t left her prostitution since leaving Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her. They carressed her youthful nipples; and they poured out their prostitution on her.
“Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.
These uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters; and they killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.
“Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lusting than she, and in her prostitution which was more depraved than the prostitution of her sister.
She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
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