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Ezekiel 16:49

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49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

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Poor and needy

  

In Deuteronomy 15:11, this signifies that truth requires good and good truth, and always will. (Arcana Coelestia 5365)

In Psalm 21:5, this signifies that the Lord will to eternity deliver those deprived of truths and good against their will. (The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms 271, Apocalypse Explained 95)

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Ezekiel 23:14-16

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14 She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

15 dressed with girdles on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them princes to look on, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

16 As soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.