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Ezekiel 23

Ezek. 23:27 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thus will I make thy lewdness
zimmah (Hebrew #2154)
from 2161; a plan, especially a bad one
KJV usage: heinous crime, lewd(-ly, -ness), mischief, purpose, thought, wicked (device, mind, -ness).
Pronounce: zim-maw'
Origin: or zammah {zam-maw'}
to cease
shabath (Hebrew #7673)
to repose, i.e. desist from exertion; used in many implied relations (causative, figurative or specific)
KJV usage: (cause to, let, make to) cease, celebrate, cause (make) to fail, keep (sabbath), suffer to be lacking, leave, put away (down), (make to) rest, rid, still, take away.
Pronounce: shaw-bath'
Origin: a primitive root
n from thee, and thy whoredom
znuwth (Hebrew #2184)
adultery, i.e. (figuratively) infidelity, idolatry
KJV usage: whoredom.
Pronounce: zen-ooth'
Origin: from 2181
broughtp from the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
of Egypt
Mitsrayim (Hebrew #4714)
Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt
KJV usage: Egypt, Egyptians, Mizraim.
Pronounce: mits-rah'-yim
Origin: dual of 4693
: so that thou shalt not lift up
nasa' (Hebrew #5375)
a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. and rel. (as follows)
KJV usage: accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable (+ man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, X needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, + swear, take (away, up), X utterly, wear, yield.
Pronounce: naw-saw'
Origin: or nacah (Psalm 4 : 6 (7)) {naw-saw'}
thine eyes
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
unto them, nor remember
zakar (Hebrew #2142)
properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e. to remember; by implication, to mention; also (as denominative from 2145) to be male
KJV usage: X burn (incense), X earnestly, be male, (make) mention (of), be mindful, recount, record(-er), remember, make to be remembered, bring (call, come, keep, put) to (in) remembrance, X still, think on, X well.
Pronounce: zaw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
Egypt
Mitsrayim (Hebrew #4714)
Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt
KJV usage: Egypt, Egyptians, Mizraim.
Pronounce: mits-rah'-yim
Origin: dual of 4693
any more.
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Ezek. 16:41• 41And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women; and I will cause thee to cease from being a harlot, and thou also shalt give no more any reward. (Ezek. 16:41)
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Ezek. 22:15• 15And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee through the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee. (Ezek. 22:15)
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Ezek. 23:3,19• 3And they committed whoredom in Egypt; they committed whoredom in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there were handled the teats of their virginity.
 19Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she played the harlot in the land of Egypt; (Ezek. 23:3,19)

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Ezek. 16:41• 41And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women; and I will cause thee to cease from being a harlot, and thou also shalt give no more any reward. (Ezek. 16:41)
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Ezek. 22:15• 15And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee through the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee. (Ezek. 22:15)
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Isa. 27:9• 9By this, therefore, shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit of the taking away of his sin: when he shall make all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are crumbled in pieces,--the Asherahs and the sun-images shall not stand. (Isa. 27:9)
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Mic. 5:10‑14• 10And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots.
 11And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and overthrow all thy strongholds.
 12And I will cut off sorceries out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no soothsayers.
 13Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy statues out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more bow down to the work of thy hands.
 14And I will pluck up thine Asherahs out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy cities. (Mic. 5:10‑14)
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Zech. 13:2• 2And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land. (Zech. 13:2)
and thy.
Ezek. 23:3,19• 3And they committed whoredom in Egypt; they committed whoredom in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there were handled the teats of their virginity.
 19Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she played the harlot in the land of Egypt; (Ezek. 23:3,19)
so that.These severe judgments shall effectually deter you from idolatry, and make you abhor the least approaches to it.
This often repeated prediction has received a most wonderful accomplishment.
For neither the authority, frowns, examples, or favour of their conquerors or powerful neighbours, nor their own fears, hopes, interests, or predilection for the sensual worship of idols, could prevail with them to run into gross idolatry, either during the captivity, or ever afterwards, to the present day, a period of 2,414 years.

J. N. Darby Translation

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And I will make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt; and thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.