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Proverbs 7:12

Good News Translation

or stood waiting at a corner, sometimes in the streets, sometimes in the marketplace.

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They wait for you like robbers and cause many men to be unfaithful.

He was walking along the street near the corner where a certain woman lived. He was passing near her house

She sits at the door of her house or on a seat in the highest part of town,

The Sovereign Lord says, “Israel, long ago you rejected my authority; you refused to obey me and worship me. On every high hill and under every green tree you worshiped fertility gods.

You certainly know how to chase after lovers. Even the worst of women can learn from you.

You have cheapened yourself by turning to the gods of other nations. You will be disappointed by Egypt, just as you were by Assyria.

Look up at the hilltops. Is there any place where you have not acted like a prostitute? You waited for lovers along the roadside, as an Arab waits for victims in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution.

On every street you built places to worship idols and practice prostitution. But you are not out for money like a common prostitute.

Never again will the light of a lamp be seen in you; no more will the voices of brides and grooms be heard in you. Your merchants were the most powerful in all the world, and with your false magic you deceived all the peoples of the world!”

For all the nations have drunk her wine—the strong wine of her immoral lust. The kings of the earth practiced sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the world grew rich from her unrestrained lust.”




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