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Ezekiel 23:21

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23:21This is how you assessed22 the obscene conduct of your youth, when the Egyptians fondled23 your nipples and squeezed24 your young breasts.

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  1. 22 Or “you took note of.” The Hebrew verb פָּקַד (paqad) in the Qal implies evaluating something and then acting in light of that judgment; here the prophet depicts Judah as approving of her youthful unfaithfulness and then magnifying it at the present time. Some translations assume the verb should be repointed as a Niphal, rendering “you missed” or by extension “you longed for,” but such an extension of the Niphal “to be missing” is otherwise unattested.
  2. 23 Heb “when (they) did,” but the verb makes no sense here and is better emended to “when (they) fondled,” a verb used in vv. 3 and 8. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (), 2:.
  3. 24 Heb “for the sake of,” but the expression is awkward and is better emended to read “to squeeze.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (), 2:.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed your young breasts.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

So you revisited the depravity of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your nipples to enjoy your youthful breasts.

NLTNew Living Translation

And so, Oholibah, you relived your former days as a young girl in Egypt, when you first allowed your breasts to be fondled.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And you longed after the obscene conduct of your youth when your bosom was caressed by Egypt, fondling your young breasts.

KJV 1900King James Version

Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.