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Proverbs 7:12

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now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait.

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She lies in wait like a robber and increases the faithless among men.

passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house

She sits at the door of her house, she takes a seat on the high places of the town,

“For long ago you broke your yoke and burst your bonds; and you said, ‘I will not serve.’ Yea, upon every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down as a harlot.

“How well you direct your course to seek lovers! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways.

How lightly you gad about, changing your way! You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.

Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile harlotry.

building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned hire.

and the light of a lamp shall shine in thee no more; and the voice of bridegroom and bride shall be heard in thee no more; for thy merchants were the great men of the earth, and all nations were deceived by thy sorcery.

For all nations have drunk the wine of her impure passion, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich with the wealth of her wantonness.”




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