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Proverbs 7:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.

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indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber and increases the number of unfaithful people.


She sits by the doorway of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city,


For all the nations have drunk the wine of her sexual immorality, which brings wrath. The kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from her sensuality and excess.


the light of a lamp will never shine in you again; and the voice of a groom and bride will never be heard in you again. All this will happen because your merchants were the nobility of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.


building your mound at the head of every street and making your elevated place in every square. But you were unlike a prostitute because you scorned payment.


Look to the barren heights  and see. Where have you not been immoral? You sat waiting for them beside the roads like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.


How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be put to shame by Egypt just as you were put to shame by Assyria.


How skilfully you pursue love; you also teach evil women your ways.


For long ago I   broke your yoke; I  tore off your chains. You insisted, ‘I will not serve! ’ On every high hill and under every green tree you lay down like a prostitute.


Crossing the street near her corner, he strolled down the road to her house





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