t.
23:20. And she was mad with lust after lying with them whose flesh is as
the flesh of asses: and whose issue as the issue of horses.
23:21. And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when thy
breasts were pressed in Egypt, and the paps of thy virginity broken.
23:22. Therefore, Ooliba, thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will raise
up against thee all thy lovers with whom thy soul hath been glutted: and
I will gather them together against thee round about.
23:23. The children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, the nobles, and
the kings, and princes, all the sons of the Assyrians, beautiful young
men, all the captains, and rulers, the princes of princes, and the
renowned horsemen.
23:24. And they shall come upon thee well appointed with chariot and
wheel, a multitude of people: they shall be armed against thee on every
side with breastplate, and buckler, and helmet: and I will set judgment
before them, and they shall judge thee by their judgments.
23:25. And I will set my jealousy against thee, which they shall execute
upon thee with fury: they shall cut off thy nose and thy ears: and what
remains shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons, and thy
daughters, and thy residue shall be devoured by fire.
23:26. And they shall strip thee of thy garments, and take away the
instruments of thy glory.
23:27. And I will put an end to thy wickedness in thee, and thy
fornication brought out of the land of Egypt: neither shalt thou lift up
thy eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.
23:28. For thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will deliver thee into the
hands of them whom thou hatest, into their hands with whom thy soul hath
been glutted.
23:29. And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and they shall take away
all thy labours, and shall let thee go naked, and full of disgrace, and
the disgrace of thy fornication shall be discovered, thy wickedness, and
thy fornications.
23:30. They have done these things to thee, because thou hast played the
harlot with the nations among which thou wast defiled with their idols.
23:31. Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister and I will give her cup
into thy hand.
23:32. Thus saith the Lord God: Thou shalt drink thy sister's cup, deep
and wide: thou shalt be had in derision and scorn, which containeth very
much.
23:33. Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness, and sorrow: with the cup
of grief and sadness, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
23:34.
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