14 So she increased her harlotries. And she saw men (A)portrayed on the wall, images of the (B)Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, 15 girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, (a)like the (b)Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth. 16 (c)When she saw them she (C)lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. 17 The (d)(D)Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their harlotry. And when she had been defiled by them, (e)she became disgusted with them.

Footnotes:

a. Ezekiel 23:15: ['Lit ', the likeness of]
b. Ezekiel 23:15: ['Lit ', sons of Babel]
c. Ezekiel 23:16: ['Lit ', At the sight of her eyes]
d. Ezekiel 23:17: ['Lit ', sons of Babel]
e. Ezekiel 23:17: ['Lit ', her soul]

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