17 It will come about at (A)the end of seventy years that the Lord will visit Tyre. Then she will go back to her prostitute’s wages and (B)commit prostitution with all the kingdoms [a]on the face of the earth.

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  1. Isaiah 23:17 Lit of the earth on the face of the land

17 At the end of seventy years,(A) the Lord will deal with Tyre. She will return to her lucrative prostitution(B) and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.(C)

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All because of the (A)many sexual acts of the prostitute,
The charming one, the (B)mistress of sorceries,
Who (C)sells nations by her sexual acts,
And families by her sorceries.

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all because of the wanton lust of a prostitute,
    alluring, the mistress of sorceries,(A)
who enslaved nations by her prostitution(B)
    and peoples by her witchcraft.

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30 but when this son of yours came, who has devoured your [a](A)wealth with prostitutes, you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.’

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  1. Luke 15:30 Lit means of subsistence

30 But when this son of yours who has squandered your property(A) with prostitutes(B) comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

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16 Or (A)do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “(B)The two shall become one flesh.”

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16 Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”[a](A)

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  1. 1 Corinthians 6:16 Gen. 2:24

Therefore the (A)showers have been withheld,
And there has been no spring rain.
Yet you had a (B)prostitute’s [a]forehead;
You refused to be ashamed.

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  1. Jeremiah 3:3 I.e., calloused appearance

Therefore the showers have been withheld,(A)
    and no spring rains(B) have fallen.
Yet you have the brazen(C) look of a prostitute;
    you refuse to blush with shame.(D)

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30 “How (A)feverish is your heart,” declares the Lord God, “while you do all these things, the action of a [a](B)bold prostitute! 31 When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every public square, in (C)spurning a prostitute’s fee, you were not like a prostitute. 32 You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband! 33 Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you (D)give your gifts to all your lovers and lavish favors on them so that they will come to you from every direction for your obscene practices. 34 So it is the opposite for you from those women in your obscene practices, in that you are not approached for prostitution, and in the fact that you pay a prostitute’s fee, and no fee is paid to you; so you are the opposite.”

35 Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the Lord.

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  1. Ezekiel 16:30 Lit mighty

30 “‘I am filled with fury against you,[a] declares the Sovereign Lord, when you do all these things, acting like a brazen prostitute!(A) 31 When you built your mounds at every street corner and made your lofty shrines(B) in every public square, you were unlike a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

32 “‘You adulterous wife! You prefer strangers to your own husband! 33 All prostitutes receive gifts,(C) but you give gifts(D) to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.(E) 34 So in your prostitution you are the opposite of others; no one runs after you for your favors. You are the very opposite, for you give payment and none is given to you.

35 “‘Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the Lord!

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  1. Ezekiel 16:30 Or How feverish is your heart,

(A)because His (B)judgments are (C)true and righteous; for He has judged the (D)great prostitute who was corrupting the earth with her sexual immorality, and He has (E)avenged the blood of His bond-servants [a]on her.”

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  1. Revelation 19:2 Lit from her hand

    for true and just are his judgments.(A)
He has condemned the great prostitute(B)
    who corrupted the earth by her adulteries.
He has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”(C)

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