Ezekiel 16:25

16:25 At the head of every street you erected your pavilion and you disgraced ¹  your beauty when you spread ²  your legs to every passerby and multiplied your promiscuity.

Ezekiel 16:29

16:29 Then you multiplied your promiscuity to the land of merchants, Babylonia, ³  but you were not satisfied there either.

Ezekiel 16:51

16:51 Samaria has not committed half the sins you have; you have done more abominable deeds than they did. ⁴  You have made your sisters appear righteous with all the abominable things you have done.

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¹ tn Heb “treated as if abominable,” i.e., repudiated.

² tn The only other occurrence of the Hebrew root is found in Prov 13:3 in reference to the talkative person who habitually “opens wide” his lips.

³ tn Heb “Chaldea.” The name of the tribal group ruling Babylon (“Chaldeans”) and the territory from which they originated (“Chaldea”) is used as metonymy for the whole empire of Babylon.

⁴ tn Or “you have multiplied your abominable deeds beyond them.”