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Proverbs 7:12

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

who walk street after street, waiting to trap a man.

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they are waiting to attack you like a gang of robbers with victim after victim.

It was late in the evening, some time after dark.

She sits in front of her house and on the highest hills in the town.

Long ago you left me and broke all ties between us, refusing to be my servant. Now you worship other gods by having sex on hilltops or in the shade of large trees.

You are so clever at finding lovers that you could give lessons to a prostitute.

When Assyria let you down, you ran to Egypt, but you'll find no help there,

Just try to find one hilltop where you haven't gone to worship other gods by having sex. You sat beside the road like a robber in ambush, except you offered yourself to every passer-by. Your sins of unfaithfulness have polluted the land.

You had sex on every street corner, and when you finished, you refused to accept money. That's worse than being a prostitute!

Lamps will no longer shine anywhere in Babylon, and couples will never again say wedding vows there. Her merchants ruled the earth, and by her witchcraft she fooled all nations.

Babylon's evil and immoral wine has made all nations drunk. Every king on earth has slept with her, and every merchant on earth is rich because of her evil desires.”




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