Ezekiel 23:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians fondled your bosom and caressed your young breasts.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Thus you yearned for the lewdness of your youth, when those of Egypt handled your bosom on account of your girlish breasts.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in the handling of thy bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of thy youth.

Common English Bible

²¹ She relived the wicked days of her youth, when the Egyptians touched and fondled her young and nubile breasts.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And you have revisited the crimes of your youth, when your breasts were conquered in Egypt, and the breasts of your adolescence were subdued.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when thy breasts were pressed in Egypt and the paps of thy virginity broken.

Ezekiel 23:21 Cross References

Jeremiah 3:9

Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.

Ezekiel 23:19

Yet she increased her prostitutions, remembering the days of her youth, when she prostituted herself in the land of Egypt

Ezekiel 23:22

Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord God: I will rouse against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side:

Ezekiel 23:3

they prostituted themselves in Egypt; they prostituted themselves in their youth; their breasts were caressed there, and their virgin bosoms were fondled.

Ezekiel 23:8

She did not give up her prostitutions that she had practiced since Egypt, for in her youth men had lain with her and fondled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust upon her.

John 5:43

I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; if another comes in his own name, you will accept him.