Ezekiel 23 And there is a word of Yahweh unto me, saying, `Son of man,

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And there is a word of Yahweh unto me, saying, `Son of man, ² Two women were daughters of one mother, ³ And they go a-whoring in Egypt, In their youth they have gone a-whoring, There they have bruised their breasts, And there they have dealt with the loves of their virginity." ⁴ And their names [are] Aholah the elder, And Aholibah her sister, And they are Mine, and bear sons and daughters. As to their names--Samaria [is] Aholah, And Jerusalem [is] Aholibah." ⁵ And go a-whoring does Aholah under Me, And she dotes on her lovers, On the neighboring Assyrians, ⁶ Clothed with blue--governors and prefects, Desirable young men all of them, Horsemen, riding on horses, ⁷ And she gives her whoredoms on them, The choice of the sons of Asshur, All of them--even all on whom she doted, By all their idols she has been defiled." ⁸ And her whoredoms out of Egypt she has not forsaken, For with her they lay in her youth, And they dealt with the loves of her virginity, And they pour out their whoredoms on her." ⁹ Therefore I have given her into the hand of her lovers, Into the hand of sons of Asshur on whom she doted." ¹⁰ They have uncovered her nakedness, Her sons and her daughters they have taken, And her by sword they have slain, And she is a name for women, And judgments they have done with her." ¹¹ And see does her sister Aholibah, And she makes her doting love more corrupt than she, And her whoredoms than the whoredoms of her sister." ¹² On sons of Asshur she has doted, Governors and prefects, Neighboring ones--clothed in perfection, Horsemen, riding on horses, Desirable young men all of them." ¹³ And I see that she has been defiled, One way [is] to them both." ¹⁴ And she does add unto her whoredoms, And she sees graved men on the wall, Pictures of Chaldeans, graved with red lead, ¹⁵ Girded with a girdle on their loins, Dyed attire spread out on their heads, The appearance of rulers--all of them, The likeness of sons of Babylon, Chaldea is the land of their birth." ¹⁶ And she dotes on them at the sight of her eyes, And sends messengers to them, to Chaldea." ¹⁷ And come in unto her do sons of Babylon, To the bed of loves, And they defile her with their whoredoms, And she is defiled with them, And her soul is alienated from them." ¹⁸ And she reveals her whoredoms, And she reveals her nakedness, And alienated is My soul from off her, As alienated was My soul from off her sister." ¹⁹ And she multiplies her whoredoms, To remember the days of her youth, When she went a-whoring in the land of Egypt." ²⁰ And she dotes on their paramours, Whose flesh [is] the flesh of asses, And the issue of horses--their issue." ²¹ You look after the wickedness of your youth, In dealing out of Egypt your loves, For the sake of the breasts of your youth." ²² Therefore, O Aholibah, thus said the Lord Yahweh:Lo, I am stirring up your lovers against you, From whom your soul has been alienated, And have brought them in against you from round about." ²³ Sons of Babylon, and of all Chaldea, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, All the sons of Asshur with them, Desirable young men, governors and prefects, All of them--rulers and proclaimed ones, Riding on horses, all of them." ²⁴ And they have come in against you, With arms, rider, and wheel, And with an assembly of peoples; Target, and shield, and helmet, They do set against you round about, And I have set before them judgment, They have judged you in their Judgments." ²⁵ And I have set My jealousy against you, And they have dealt with you in fury, Your nose and your ears they turn aside, And your posterity by sword falls, They, your sons and your daughters do take away, And your posterity is devoured by fire." ²⁶ And they have stripped you of your garments, And have taken your beauteous jewels." ²⁷ And I have caused your wickedness to cease from you, And your whoredoms out of the land of Egypt, And you lift not up your eyes unto them, And Egypt you do not remember again." ²⁸ For thus said the Lord Yahweh:Lo, I am giving you into a hand that you have hated, Into a hand from which you wast alienated." ²⁹ And they have dealt with you in hatred, And they have taken all your labor, And they have left you naked and bare, And revealed has been the nakedness of your whoredoms, And the wickedness of your whoredoms." ³⁰ To do these things to you, In your going a-whoring after nations, Because you have been defiled with their idols, ³¹ In the way of your sister you have walked, And I have given her cup into your hand." ³² Thus said the Lord Yahweh:The cup of your sister you do drink, The deep and the wide one, (You are for laughter and for scorn,) Abundant to contain." ³³ With drunkenness and sorrow you are filled, A cup of astonishment and desolation, The cup of your sister Samaria." ³⁴ And you have drunk it, and have drained [it], And its earthen ware you do gnaw, And your own breasts you pluck off, For I have spoken, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh, ³⁵ Therefore, thus said the Lord Yahweh:Because you have forgotten Me, And you do cast Me behind your back, Even you also bear your wickedness and your whoredoms.'" ³⁶ And Yahweh said unto me, `Son of man, Do you judge Aholah and Aholibah? Declare then to them their abominations." ³⁷ For they have committed adultery, And blood [is] in their hands, With their idols they committed adultery, And also their sons whom they bore to Me, They caused to pass over to them for food." ³⁸ Again, this they have done to Me, They defiled My sanctuary in that day, And My sabbaths they have polluted." ³⁹ And in their slaughtering their sons to their idols They also come in unto My sanctuary in that day to pollute it, And lo, thus they have done in the midst of My house, ⁴⁰ And also that they send to men coming from afar, Unto whom a messenger is sent, And lo, they have come in for whom you have washed, Painted your eyes, and put on adornment." ⁴¹ And you have sat on a couch of honor, And a table arrayed before it, And My perfume and My oil placed on it." ⁴² And the voice of a multitude at ease [is] with her, And unto men of the common people are brought in Sabeans from the wilderness, And they put bracelets on their hands, And a beauteous crown on their heads." ⁴³ And I say of the worn-out one in adulteries, Now they commit her whoredoms--she also!" ⁴⁴ And they come in unto her, As the coming in unto a whorish woman, So they have come in unto Aholah, And unto Aholibah--the wicked women." ⁴⁵ As to righteous men, they judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, And the judgment of women shedding blood, For they [are] adulteresses, And blood [is] in their hands." ⁴⁶ For thus said the Lord Yahweh:Bring up against them an assembly, And give them to trembling and to spoiling." ⁴⁷ And they have cast at them the stone of the assembly, And cut them with their swords, Their sons and their daughters they do slay, And their houses with fire they burn." ⁴⁸ And I have caused wickedness to cease from the land, And instructed have been all the women, And they do not according to your wickedness." ⁴⁹ And they have put your wickedness on you, And the sins of your idols you bear, And you have known that I [am] the Lord Yahweh!"