Ezekiel 23:20
And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is like the seed of horses.
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- Ezek 16:26 : 26 And you went with the Egyptians, your neighbours, great of flesh; increasing your loose ways, moving me to wrath.
- Ezek 17:15 : 15 But he went against his authority in sending representatives to Egypt to get from them horses and a great army. Will he do well? will he be safe who does such things? if the agreement is broken will he be safe?
- Jer 5:8 : 8 They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife.
- Ezek 16:20 : 20 And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their food. Was your loose behaviour so small a thing,
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- Ezek 23:11-199 verses82%
11And her sister Oholibah saw this, but her desire was even more unmeasured, and her loose behaviour was worse than that of her sister.
12She was full of desire for the Assyrians, captains and rulers, her neighbours, clothed in blue, horsemen going on horses, all of them young men to be desired.
13And I saw that she had become unclean; the two of them went the same way.
14And her loose behaviour became worse; for she saw men pictured on a wall, pictures of the Chaldaeans painted in bright red,
15With bands round their bodies and with head-dresses hanging round their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the Babylonians, the land of whose birth is Chaldaea.
16And when she saw them she was full of desire for them, and sent servants to them in Chaldaea.
17And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and made her unclean with their loose desire, and she became unclean with them, and her soul was turned from them.
18So her loose behaviour was clearly seen and her shame uncovered: then my soul was turned from her as it had been turned from her sister.
19But still she went on the more with her loose behaviour, keeping in mind the early days when she had been a loose woman in the land of Egypt.
- Ezek 23:21-233 verses80%
21And she made the memory of the loose ways of her early years come back to mind, when her young breasts were crushed by the Egyptians.
22For this cause, O Oholibah, this is what the Lord has said: See, I will make your lovers come up against you, even those from whom your soul is turned away in disgust; and I will make them come up against you on every side;
23The Babylonians and all the Chaldaeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: young men to be desired, captains and rulers all of them, and chiefs, her neighbours, all of them on horseback.
- Ezek 23:5-95 verses77%
5And Oholah was untrue to me when she was mine; she was full of desire for her lovers, even for the Assyrians, her neighbours,
6Who were clothed in blue, captains and rulers, all of them young men to be desired, horsemen seated on horses.
7And she gave her unclean love to them, all of them the noblest men of Assyria: and she made herself unclean with the images of all who were desired by her.
8And she has not given up her loose ways from the time when she was in Egypt; for when she was young they were her lovers, and by them her young breasts were crushed, and they let loose on her their unclean desire.
9For this cause I gave her up into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians on whom her desire was fixed.
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8They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife.
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3They were acting like loose women in Egypt; when they were young their behaviour was loose: there their breasts were crushed, even the points of their young breasts were crushed.
- Ezek 16:25-295 verses72%
25You put up your high places at the top of every street, and made the grace of your form a disgusting thing, opening your feet to everyone who went by, increasing your loose ways.
26And you went with the Egyptians, your neighbours, great of flesh; increasing your loose ways, moving me to wrath.
27Now, then, my hand is stretched out against you, cutting down your fixed amount, and I have given you up to the desire of your haters, the daughters of the Philistines who are shamed by your loose ways.
28And you went with the Assyrians, because of your desire which was without measure; you were acting like a loose woman with them, and still you had not enough.
29And you went on in your loose ways, even as far as the land of Chaldaea, and still you had not enough.
- Jer 2:23-242 verses72%
23How are you able to say, I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, be clear about what you have done: you are a quick-footed camel twisting her way in and out;
24An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.
- Ezek 23:42-443 verses72%
42... and they put jewels on her hands and beautiful crowns on her head.
43Then I said ... now she will go on with her loose ways.
44And they went in to her, as men go to a loose woman: so they went in to Oholibah, the loose woman.
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5For their mother has been untrue; she who gave them birth has done things of shame, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my wine.
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18Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.
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9I have made a comparison of you, O my love, to a horse in Pharaoh's carriages.
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30They will do these things to you because you have been untrue to me, and have gone after the nations, and have become unclean with their images.
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15About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?
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9So that through all her loose behaviour the land became unclean, and she was untrue, giving herself to stones and trees.
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4Because of all the false ways of the loose woman, expert in attraction and wise in secret arts, who takes nations in the net of her false ways, and families through her secret arts.
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18Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?
- Ezek 16:32-332 verses69%
32The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!
33They give payment to all loose women: but you give rewards to your lovers, offering them payment so that they may come to you on every side for your cheap love.
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9For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.
- Prov 5:19-202 verses68%
19As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.
20Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?
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15But you put your faith in the fact that you were beautiful, acting like a loose woman because you were widely talked of, and offering your cheap love to everyone who went by, whoever it might be.
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27So I will put an end to your evil ways and your loose behaviour which came from the land of Egypt: and your eyes will never be lifted up to them again, and you will have no more memory of Egypt.
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2Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.
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27I have seen your disgusting acts, even your false behaviour and your cries of desire and your loose ways on the hills in the field. Unhappy are you, O Jerusalem, you have no desire to be made clean; how long will you be in turning back to me?
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17And you took the fair jewels, my silver and gold which I had given to you, and made for yourself male images, acting like a loose woman with them;
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36This is what the Lord has said: Because your unclean behaviour was let loose and your body uncovered in your loose ways with your lovers and with your disgusting images, and for the blood of your children which you gave to them;
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16Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.
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37For she has been false to me, and blood is on her hands, and with her images she has been untrue; and more than this, she made her sons, whom she had by me, go through the fire to them to be burned up.