Ezekiel 23:21
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New International Version (©2011)
So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.

New Living Translation (©2007)
And so, Oholibah, you relived your former days as a young girl in Egypt, when you first allowed your breasts to be fondled.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed your young breasts.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom because of the breasts of your youth.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your nipples to enjoy your youthful breasts."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Think about the wickedness that you practiced when you were young, when the Egyptians fondled your breasts, the breasts of your youth."

NET Bible (©2006)
This is how you assessed the obscene conduct of your youth, when the Egyptians fondled your nipples and squeezed your young breasts.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So she longed to do the sinful things she did when she was young in Egypt, when young men caressed and fondled her breasts.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth, in handling of your breasts by the Egyptians for the sake of the bosom of your youth.

American King James Version
Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth, in bruising your teats by the Egyptians for the breasts of your youth.

American Standard Version
Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in the handling of thy bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of thy youth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when thy breasts were pressed in Egypt, and the papa of thy virginity broken.

Darby Bible Translation
And thou didst look back to the lewdness of thy youth, in the handling of thy teats by the Egyptians, for the breasts of thy youth.

English Revised Version
Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in the bruising of thy teats by the Egyptians for the breasts of thy youth.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, by being corrupted by the Egyptians in thy youth.

World English Bible
Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the handling of your bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of your youth.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou lookest after the wickedness of thy youth, In dealing out of Egypt thy loves, For the sake of the breasts of thy youth.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

23:1-49 A history of the apostacy of God's people from him, and the aggravation thereof. - In this parable, Samaria and Israel bear the name Aholah, her own tabernacle; because the places of worship those kingdoms had, were of their own devising. Jerusalem and Judah bear the name of Aholibah, my tabernacle is in her, because their temple was the place which God himself had chosen, to put his name there. The language and figures are according to those times. Will not such humbling representations of nature keep open perpetual repentance and sorrow in the soul, hiding pride from our eyes, and taking us from self-righteousness? Will it not also prompt the soul to look to God continually for grace, that by his Holy Spirit we may mortify the deeds of the body, and live in holy conversation and godliness?

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth,.... By committing the same; the same idolatries their fathers committed in Egypt they now committed, being in alliance with the same people: or,

thou causest to be visited the lewdness of thy youth (a); by the Lord, who remembered their sins, and punished them for them:

in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth: committing spiritual fornication, that is, idolatry with them; signified by pressing and bruising the breasts and paps of virgins, by corporeal fornication with them.

(a) "et visitasti scelus adolescestiae, vel pueritiae tuae", Piscator, Starckius; i.e. "visitari fecisti a Deo", a Lapide.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

21. calledst to remembrance—"didst repeat" [Maurer].

in bruising—in suffering … to be bruised.

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The Adultery of Oholah and Aholibah
…19Yet she multiplied her prostitutions, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. 20For she doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. 21Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth, in bruising your teats by the Egyptians for the breasts of your youth.

Jeremiah 3:9 Because Israel's immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.
Ezekiel 23:3 They became prostitutes in Egypt, engaging in prostitution from their youth. In that land their breasts were fondled and their virgin bosoms caressed.
Ezekiel 23:22 "Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will stir up your lovers against you, those you turned away from in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side--