Holy Scripture

Ezekiel 16:27

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 27.) Behold, I will stretch forth my hand over you and will take away your righteousness, and I will give you over to the souls of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your wicked way. LXX: But if I stretch out my hand against you and take away your lawful possession and give…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ezekiel

Source: Septuagint

Original

27And if I stretch out my hand against thee, then will I abolish thy statutes, and deliver thee up to the wills of them that hate thee, even to the daughters of the Philistines that turned thee aside from the way wherein thou sinnedst.

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25and on the head of every way thou didst set up thy fornications, and didst defile thy beauty, and didst open thy feet to every passerby, and didst multiply thy fornication.

26And thou didst go a-whoring after the children of Egypt thy neighbors, great of flesh; and didst go a-whoring often to provoke me to anger.

— Ezekiel 16:27 —

28And thou didst go a-whoring to the daughters of Assyria, and not even thus wast thou satisfied; yea, thou didst go a-whoring, and wast not satisfied.

29And thou didst multiply thy covenants with the land of the Chaldeans; and not even with these wast thou satisfied.

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