Bible in Basic English
"So her loose behaviour was clearly seen and her shame uncovered: then my soul was turned from her as it had been turned from her sister."
— Ezekiel 23:18, Bible in Basic English
“So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.”
With bands round their bodies and with head-dresses hanging round their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the Babylonians, the land of whose birth is Chaldaea.
And when she saw them she was full of desire for them, and sent servants to them in Chaldaea.
And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and made her unclean with their loose desire, and she became unclean with them, and her soul was turned from them.
So her loose behaviour was clearly seen and her shame uncovered: then my soul was turned from her as it had been turned from her sister.
But still she went on the more with her loose behaviour, keeping in mind the early days when she had been a loose woman in the land of Egypt.
And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is like the seed of horses.
And she made the memory of the loose ways of her early years come back to mind, when her young breasts were crushed by the Egyptians.