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Proverbs 7:12

New American Bible - revised edition

Now she is in the streets, now in the open squares, lurking in ambush at every corner.

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Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the number of the faithless.

Crossing the street near the corner, then walking toward her house,

She sits at the door of her house upon a seat on the city heights,

Long ago you broke your yoke, you tore off your bonds. You said, “I will not serve.” On every high hill, under every green tree, you sprawled and served as a prostitute.

How well you pick your way when seeking love! In your wickedness, you have gone by ways unclean!

How frivolous you have become in changing your course! By Egypt you will be shamed, just as you were shamed by Assyria.

Raise your eyes to the heights, and look, where have men not lain with you? Along the roadways you waited for them like an Arabian in the wilderness. You defiled the land by your wicked prostitution.

when you built your platform at every intersection and set up your high place in every public square. But unlike a prostitute, you disdained payment.

No light from a lamp will ever be seen in you again. No voices of bride and groom will ever be heard in you again. Because your merchants were the great ones of the world, all nations were led astray by your magic potion.

For all the nations have drunk the wine of her licentious passion. The kings of the earth had intercourse with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her drive for luxury.”




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