Ezekiel 23:21

And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when thy breasts were pressed in Egypt, and the papa of thy virginity broken.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

In Context

20And 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.

22Therefore, 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.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 23:8Moreover also she did not forsake her fornications which she had committed in Egypt: for they also lay with her in her youth, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured out their fornication upon her.

John 5:43I am come in the name of my Father, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 23:12-22

The Sins of Samaria and Jerusalem. ( b. c. 591.) 11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms. 12 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men. 13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way, 14 And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the… Read the whole commentary →

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