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40 They even sent for men to come from far away, men to whom they had sent a messenger, and those men did come.

For them you[a] bathed. You applied eye shadow and put on your jewelry. 41 You sat on an expensive couch. In front of it you set a table, on which you placed my incense and my perfumed oil.

42 The noise of a carefree crowd surrounded her. In addition to the large throng of all kinds of men, they even brought drunkards[b] from the desert. They put bracelets on their arms and beautiful crowns on their heads.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 23:40 As is often the case in prophecy, there are a number of rapid switches between words addressed to the prophet and to the people, and between words addressed to the people and words about the people.
  2. Ezekiel 23:42 Or Sabeans