Ezekiel 23:25

I will set my jealousy against thee— "They shall punish thee with that fury with which a man in the rage of jealousy shall treat a wife who has been unfaithful to him. The mutilations mentioned in this verse were common among the Chaldeans. St. Jerome assures us, that they frequently cut off the nose and the ears of adulterers; and Martial, to the same purpose, epist. 43: lib. 3: says,

Quis tibi persuasit nares abscindere maecho?

This was practised towards the women in Egypt.