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Ezekiel 23

¹The word of YHWH came again unto me, saying, ²Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: ³and they played the harlot in Egypt; they played the harlot in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity. ⁴And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they became mine, and they bare sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah. ⁵And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors, ⁶who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. ⁷And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on whomsoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself. ⁸Neither hath she left her whoredoms since [the days of] Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their whoredom upon her. ⁹Wherefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted. ¹⁰These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they slew with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed judgments upon her. ¹¹And her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her whoredoms which were more than the whoredoms of her sister. ¹²She doted upon the Assyrians, governors and rulers, [her] neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men. ¹³And I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way. ¹⁴And she increased her whoredoms; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, ¹⁵girded with girdles upon their loins, with flowing turbans upon their heads, all of them princes to look upon, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their nativity. ¹⁶And as soon as she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. ¹⁷And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them. ¹⁸So she uncovered her whoredoms, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister. ¹⁹Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, remembering the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. ²⁰And she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. ²¹Thus you calledst to remembrance the lewdness of your youth, in the handling of your bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of your youth. ²²Therefore, O Oholibah, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side: ²³the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, [and] all the Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors and rulers all of them, princes and men of renown, all of them riding upon horses. ²⁴And they shall come against thee with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples; they shall set themselves against thee with buckler and shield and helmet round about; and I will commit the judgment unto them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments. ²⁵And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal with thee in fury; they shall take away your nose and yours ears; and your residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take your sons and your daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire. ²⁶They shall also strip thee of your clothes, and take away your fair jewels. ²⁷Thus will I make your lewdness to cease from thee, and your whoredom [brought] from the land of Egypt; so that you shall not lift up yours eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more. ²⁸For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom you hatest, into the hand of them from whom your soul is alienated; ²⁹and they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare; and the nakedness of your whoredoms shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your whoredoms. ³⁰These things shall be done unto thee, for that you hast played the harlot after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols. ³¹Thou hast walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I give her cup into your hand. ³²Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou shall drink of your sister's cup, which is deep and large; you shall be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much. ³³Thou shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria. ³⁴Thou shall even drink it and drain it out, and you shall gnaw the sherds thereof, and shall tear your breasts; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah. ³⁵Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because you hast forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore bear you also your lewdness and your whoredoms. ³⁶YHWH said moreover unto me: Son of man, wilt you judge Oholah and Oholibah? then declare unto them their abominations. ³⁷For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery; and they have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass through [the fire] unto them to be devoured. ³⁸Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths. ³⁹For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of my house. ⁴⁰And furthermore ye have sent for men that come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent, and, lo, they came; for whom you didst wash thyself, paint yours eyes, and deck thyself with ornaments, ⁴¹and sit upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you didst set mine incense and mine oil. ⁴²And the voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets upon the hands of them [twain], and beautiful crowns upon their heads. ⁴³Then said I of her that was old in adulteries, Now will they play the harlot with her, and she [with them]. ⁴⁴And they went in unto her, as they go in unto a harlot: so went they in unto Oholah and unto Oholibah, the lewd women. ⁴⁵And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. ⁴⁶For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed to and fro and robbed. ⁴⁷And the company shall stone them with stones, and despatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. ⁴⁸Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. ⁴⁹And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols; and ye shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.

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