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Ezekiel 23

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1 The Lord spoke to me.

2 "Mortal man," he said, "there were once two sisters.

3 When they were young, living in Egypt, they lost their virginity and became prostitutes.

4 The older one was named Oholah (she represents Samaria), and the younger one was named Oholibah (she represents Jerusalem). I married both of them, and they bore me children

5 Although she was mine, Oholah continued to be a prostitute and was full of lust for her lovers from Assyria.

6 They were soldiers in uniforms of purple, noblemen and high-ranking officers; all of them were handsome young cavalry officers.

7 She was the whore for all the Assyrian officers, and her lust led her to defile herself by worshiping Assyrian idols.

8 She continued what she had begun as a prostitute in Egypt, where she lost her virginity. From the time she was a young woman, men slept with her and treated her like a prostitute.

9 So I handed her over to her Assyrian lovers whom she wanted so much.

10 They stripped her naked, seized her sons and daughters, and then killed her with a sword. Women everywhere gossiped about her fate.

11 "Even though her sister Oholibah saw this, she was wilder and more of a prostitute than Oholah had ever been.

12 She too was full of lust for the Assyrian noblemen and officers - soldiers in bright uniforms - and for the cavalry officers, all of those handsome young men.

13 I saw that she was completely immoral, that the second sister was as bad as the first.

14 "She sank deeper and deeper in her immorality. She was attracted by the images of high Babylonian officials carved into the wall and painted bright red, with sashes around their waists and fancy turbans on their heads

16 As soon as she saw them, she was filled with lust and sent messengers to them in Babylonia.

17 The Babylonians came to have sex with her. They used her and defiled her so much that finally she became disgusted with them.

18 She exposed herself publicly and let everyone know she was a whore. I was as disgusted with her as I had been with her sister.

19 She became more of a prostitute than ever, acting the way she did as a young woman, when she was a prostitute in Egypt

20 She was filled with lust for oversexed men who had all the lustfulness of donkeys or stallions.

21 (Oholibah, you wanted to repeat the immorality you were guilty of as a young woman in Egypt, where men played with your breasts and you lost your virginity.

22 "Now then, Oholibah, this is what I, the Sovereign Lord, am saying to you. You are tired of those lovers, but I will make them angry with you and bring them to surround you.

23 I will bring all the Babylonians and Chaldeans, men from Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians. I will gather all those handsome young noblemen and officers, all those important officials and high-ranking cavalry officers.

24 They will attack you from the north, bringing a large army with chariots and supply wagons. Protected by shields and helmets, they will surround you. I will hand you over to them, and they will judge you by their own laws.

25 Because I am angry with you, I will let them deal with you in their anger. They will cut off your nose and your ears and kill your children. Yes, they will take your sons and daughters from you and burn them alive.

26 They will tear off your clothes and take your jewels.

27 I will put a stop to your lust and to the obscenities you have committed ever since you were in Egypt. You won't look at any more idols or think about Egypt any more."

28 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: "I will hand you over to people you hate and are disgusted with.

29 And because they hate you, they will take away everything you have worked for and leave you stripped naked, exposed like a prostitute. Your lust and your prostitution

30 have brought this on you. You were a prostitute for the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.

31 You followed in your sister's footsteps, and so I will give you the same cup of punishment to drink."

32 The Sovereign Lord says, "You will drink from your sister's cup; it is large and deep. Everyone will scorn and mock you; the cup is full.

33 It will make you miserable and drunk, that cup of fear and ruin, your sister Samaria's cup.

34 You will drink and drain it dry, and with its broken pieces tear your breast. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken."

35 Now this is what the Sovereign Lord is saying: "Because you forgot me and turned your back on me, you will suffer for your lust and your prostitution."

36 The Lord said to me, "Mortal man, are you ready to judge Oholah and Oholibah? Accuse them of the disgusting things they have done

37 They have committed adultery and murder - adultery with idols and murder of the children they bore me. They sacrificed my children to their idols.

38 And that is not all they did. They profaned my Temple and broke the Sabbath, which I had established

39 The very day that they killed my children as sacrifices to idols, they came to my Temple and profaned it!

40 "Again and again they sent messengers to invite men to come from a great distance, and the men came. The two sisters would bathe and put on eye shadow and jewelry.

41 They would sit on a beautiful couch, and in front of them they would have a table covered with good things, including the incense and the olive oil that I had given them.

42 The sound of a carefree crowd could be heard, a group of men brought in from the desert. They put bracelets on the women's arms and beautiful crowns on their heads.

43 And I said to myself that they were using as a prostitute a woman worn out by adultery.

44 They went back to these prostitutes again and again. They went back to Oholah and Oholibah, those immoral women.

45 Righteous men will condemn them on the charge of adultery and murder, because they practice adultery and their hands are stained with blood."

46 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: "Bring a mob to terrorize them and rob them.

47 Let the mob stone them and attack them with swords, kill their children, and burn down their houses.

48 Throughout the land I will put a stop to immorality, as a warning to every woman not to commit adultery as they did.

49 And you two sisters - I will punish you for your immorality and your sin of worshiping idols. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign Lord."

World English Bible WEB

1 The LORD’s word came again to me, saying,

2 “Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.

3 They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their youthful nipples were caressed there.

4 Their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.

5 “Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,

6 who were clothed with blue—governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

7 She gave herself as a prostitute to them, all of them the choicest men of Assyria. She defiled herself with the idols of whomever she lusted after.

8 She hasn’t left her prostitution since leaving Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her. They caressed her youthful nipples and they poured out their prostitution on her.

9 “Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians on whom she doted.

10 These uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters, and they killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.

11 “Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lusting than she, and in her prostitution which was more depraved than the prostitution of her sister.

12 She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers—her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

13 I saw that she was defiled. They both went the same way.

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

16 As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

17 The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution. She was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

18 So she uncovered her prostitution and uncovered her nakedness. Then my soul was alienated from her, just like my soul was alienated from her sister.

19 Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.

20 She lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

21 Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the caressing of your nipples by the Egyptians because of your youthful breasts.

22 “Therefore, Oholibah, the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side:

23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; all of them desirable young men, governors and rulers, princes and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.

24 They will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples. They will set themselves against you with buckler, shield, and helmet all around. I will commit the judgment to them, and they will judge you according to their judgments.

25 I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will take away your nose and your ears. Your remnant will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and the rest of you will be devoured by the fire.

26 They will also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels.

27 Thus I will make your lewdness to cease from you, and remove your prostitution from the land of Egypt, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.’

28 “For the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom your soul is alienated.

29 They will deal with you in hatred, and will take away all your labor, and will leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your prostitution will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.

30 These things will be done to you because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols.

31 You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.’

32 “The Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink of your sister’s cup, which is deep and large. You will be ridiculed and held in derision. It contains much.

33 You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.

34 You will even drink it and drain it out. You will gnaw the broken pieces of it, and will tear your breasts; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord GOD.

35 “Therefore the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution.’”

36 The LORD said moreover to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.

37 For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire to them to be devoured.

38 Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, they have done this in the middle of my house.

40 “Furthermore you sisters have sent for men who come from far away, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you washed yourself, painted your eyes, decorated yourself with ornaments,

41 and sat on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my oil.

42 “The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. With men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.

43 Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, ‘Now they will play the prostitute with her, and she with them.’

44 They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.

45 Righteous men will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

46 “For the Lord GOD says: ‘I will bring up a mob against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.

47 The company will stone them with stones and dispatch them with their swords. They will kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

48 “‘Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to be lewd like you.

49 They will recompense your lewdness on you, and you will bear the sins of your idols. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’”