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Proverbs 7:12

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

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Like a bandit she lies in wait and multiplies the unfaithful among men.

He was going down the street near her corner, walking along in the direction of her house

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

“Long ago you broke off your yoke and tore off your bonds; you said, ‘I will not serve you!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every spreading tree you lay down as a prostitute.

How skilled you are at pursuing love! Even the worst of women can learn from your ways.

Why do you go about so much, changing your ways? You will be disappointed by Egypt as you were by Assyria.

“Look up to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been ravished? By the roadside you sat waiting for lovers, sat like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

When you built your mounds at every street corner and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were unlike a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

The light of a lamp will never shine in you again. The voice of bridegroom and bride will never be heard in you again. Your merchants were the world’s important people. By your magic spell all the nations were led astray.

For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries.”




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