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42 And a sound of a carefree crowd was with it,[a] and in addition to these men, a crowd of drunken men[b] was brought in[c] from the desert,[d] and they put bracelets on their arms and a crown of splendor on their heads. 43 And I said to[e] the one worn out with adulteries, ‘Now they will prostitute her concerning her fornication, even her.’[f] 44 And so they went to her like going to a female[g] prostitute; and thus they went to Oholah and to Oholibah, the women of obscene conduct.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 23:42 Or “her”
  2. Ezekiel 23:42 A problematic verse; reading according to the reading tradition (Qere)
  3. Ezekiel 23:42 Literally “from an abundance of men being brought in drunken”
  4. Ezekiel 23:42 Or “wilderness”
  5. Ezekiel 23:43 Or “about”
  6. Ezekiel 23:43 Or “that she did”
  7. Ezekiel 23:44 Or “a woman”