Ezekiel 23
1. The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying * ,
2. Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
3. And they committed whoredoms * in Egypt;they committed whoredoms * in their youth:there were their breasts pressed * , and there they bruised * the teats of their virginity.
4. And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare * sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
5. And Aholah played the harlot * when she was mine; and she doted * on her lovers * , on the Assyrians her neighbours,
6. Which were clothed * with blue,captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding * upon horses.
7. Thus she committed * her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted * : with all their idols she defiled * herself.
8. Neither left * she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay * with her, and they bruised * the breasts of her virginity, and poured * their whoredom upon her.
9. Wherefore I have delivered * her into the hand of her lovers * , into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted * .
10. These discovered * her nakedness: they took * her sons and her daughters,and slew * her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed * judgment upon her.
11. And when her sister Aholibah saw * this, she was more corrupt * in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
12. She doted * upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed * most gorgeously, horsemen riding * upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
13. Then I saw * that she was defiled * , that they took both one way,
14. And that she increased * her whoredoms: for when she saw * men pourtrayed * upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed * with vermilion,
15. Girded with girdles upon their loins,exceeding * in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
16. And as soon as she saw them with her eyes,she doted * upon them, and sent * messengers unto them into Chaldea.
17. And 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 mind was alienated * from them.
18. So she discovered * her whoredoms, and discovered * her nakedness: then my mind was alienated * from her, like as my mind was alienated * from her sister.
19. Yet she multiplied * her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance * the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot * in the land of Egypt.
20. For she doted * upon their paramours,whose flesh is as the flesh of asses,and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
21. Thus thou calledst to remembrance * the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising * thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
22. Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith * the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up * thy lovers * against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated * , and I will bring * them against thee on every side;
23. The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers,great lords and renowned * , all of them riding * upon horses.
24. And they shall come * against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set * against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set * judgment before them, and they shall judge * thee according to their judgments.
25. And I will set * my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal * furiously with thee: they shall take away * thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall * by the sword: they shall take * thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured * by the fire.
26. They shall also strip * thee out of thy clothes, and take away * thy fair jewels.
27. Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease * from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up * thine eyes unto them, nor remember * Egypt any more.
28. For thus saith * the Lord GOD;Behold, I will deliver * thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest * , into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated * :
29. And they shall deal * with thee hatefully, and shall take away * all thy labour, and shall leave * thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered * , both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
30. I will do * these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring * after the heathen, and because thou art polluted * with their idols.
31. Thou hast walked * in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give * her cup into thine hand.
32. Thus saith * the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink * of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth * much.
33. Thou shalt be filled * with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
34. Thou shalt even drink * it and suck it out * , and thou shalt break * the sherds thereof, and pluck off * thine own breasts: for I have spoken * it, saith * the Lord GOD.
35. Therefore thus saith * the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten * me, and cast * me behind thy back, therefore bear * thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
36. The LORD said * moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge * Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare * unto them their abominations;
37. That they have committed adultery * , and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery * , and have also caused their sons, whom they bare * unto me, to pass for them through * the fire, to devour them.
38. Moreover this they have done * unto 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, lo, thus have they done * in the midst of mine house.
40. And furthermore, that ye have sent * for men to come * from far, unto whom a messenger was sent * ; and, lo, they came * : for whom thou didst wash * thyself, paintedst * thy eyes, and deckedst * thyself with ornaments,
41. And satest * upon a stately bed, and a table prepared * before it, whereupon thou hast set * mine incense and mine oil.
42. And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought * Sabeans * from the wilderness, which put * bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
43. Then said * I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit * whoredoms with her, and she with them?
44. Yet they went in * unto her, as they go in * unto a woman that playeth the harlot * : so went they in * unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
45. And the righteous men, they shall judge * them after the manner of adulteresses * , and after the manner of women that shed * blood; because they are adulteresses * , and blood is in their hands.
46. For thus saith * the Lord GOD; I will bring up * a company upon them, and will give * them to be removed and spoiled.
47. And the company shall stone * them with stones, and dispatch * them with their swords; they shall slay * their sons and their daughters, and burn up * their houses with fire.
48. Thus will I cause lewdness to cease * out of the land, that all women may be taught * not to do * after your lewdness.
49. And 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 GOD.
