So you extended your promiscuity to Chaldea, the land of merchants—but even with this you were not satisfied!
Parallel translations
- WEB You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren’t satisfied with this.
- KJV Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.
- NKJV Moreover you multiplied your acts of harlotry as far as the land of the trader, Chaldea; and even then you were not satisfied.
- NASB You also multiplied your obscene practice with the land of merchants, Chaldea; yet even with this you were not satisfied.” ’ ”
- NLT You added to your lovers by embracing Babylonia, the land of merchants, but you still weren’t satisfied.
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She extended her harlotry to Babylon (Chaldea) and still was not satisfied. Her pursuit of foreign gods and powers was endless.
Overview
The catalog of unfaithful partners reaches Babylon, the very power that would ultimately destroy her. Even this did not satisfy her cravings. The repeated dissatisfaction underscores the futility of seeking fulfillment anywhere but in God, and ironically names the nation God would use to judge her.
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- Ezek 13:14–23I will tear down the wall you whitewashed and level it to the ground, so that its foundation is exposed. The city will fall, and you will be destroyed within it. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
- 2 Kgs 21:9But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
- Judg 2:12–19Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger,
- Ezek 23:14–21But Oholibah carried her prostitution even further. She saw the men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,
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