I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for the men themselves are gone apart with harlots, and they sacrifice with prostitutes: therefore the people that do not understand shall fall.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Visit. This is the most dreadful of God's judgments. He permits those who offend him to receive discontent from their own families.
Effeminate, like the Galli, (St. Jerome) and votaries of Priapus, 3 Kings xv. 11. Hebrew, "the consecrated women. "Septuagint, "initiated "to honour a lewd idol by prostitution. (Calmet)
Beaten. Septuagint, "adhere to a harlot. But thou, Israel, be not ignorant, and Juda go "(Haydock)