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40 What is worse,[a] they sent for men who come[b] from a distant place, to whom a messenger was sent to them, and look! They came! Men for whom you bathed and painted your eyes, and you adorned yourself with an ornament. 41 And you sat on a magnificent couch and a table prepared before her,[c] and my incense and my olive oil you put on her.[d] 42 And a sound of a carefree crowd was with it,[e] and in addition to these men, a crowd of drunken men[f] was brought in[g] from the desert,[h] and they put bracelets on their arms and a crown of splendor on their heads.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 23:40 Literally “and also for/indeed”
  2. Ezekiel 23:40 Literally “coming”
  3. Ezekiel 23:41 Literally “to the face of her”
  4. Ezekiel 23:41 Or “it”
  5. Ezekiel 23:42 Or “her”
  6. Ezekiel 23:42 A problematic verse; reading according to the reading tradition (Qere)
  7. Ezekiel 23:42 Literally “from an abundance of men being brought in drunken”
  8. Ezekiel 23:42 Or “wilderness”