VIN(i)
1 The Word of the LORD came again to me,
2 Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother,
3 "They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. There their breasts were pressed and there their virgin bosom was handled.
4 Their names were Oholah, the older, and Oholibah, her sister: and they became mine, and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem, Oholibah.
5 "Oholah played the prostitute while she was mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians, her neighbors.
6 clothed with purple, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding 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 whoever she lusted after.
8 "She did not forsake her acts of fornication from the time in Egypt. In her youth men had lain with her. They handled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.
9 Wherefore, I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, even the Assyrians, whom she so loved.
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 Though her sister Ooliba saw this, yet she became abandoned and more inordinate in her fornication than her sister.
12 She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and prefects, warriors clothed in perfection, expert horsemen, all of them handsome young men.
13 "I saw that she had defiled herself and that 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,
15 girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, like the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.
16 As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
17 And so the Babylonians came to her for the bed of lovemaking; and they defiled her with their fornication, and she was defiled by them, and she turned from them.
18 And she revealed her whorings, and she revealed her nakedness, and so I turned from her just as I turned from her sister.
19 Yet she increased her whorings, recalling the days of her childhood when she was prostituted 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 longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom because of the breasts of your youth.
22 Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Sovereign LORD: 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 and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; desirable young men, all of them governors and officials, officers 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 on every side with buckler and shield and helmet. I will commit the judgment to them, and they will judge you according to their customs.
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 fair jewels.
27 Thus I will make your lewdness to cease from you and 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 thus says the Sovereign LORD: 'Look! I am giving you into the hand of those you hated, into the hand of those from whom you turned away.
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 has brought this upon you, in that you went a-whoring after the nations, and defiled yourself with their devices.
31 You have gone in the way of your sister; and I will give her cup into your hand.
32 So says the Sovereign LORD: You shall drink of your sister's cup deep and large; you shall be laughed to scorn and mocked; for it holds much.
33 '"You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, the cup of horror and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.
34 '"You will drink it and drain it. Then you will gnaw its fragments and tear your breasts. "I have spoken," declares the Sovereign LORD.'
35 Therefore thus says the Sovereign LORD: Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitutions.
36 the LORD said to me: "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.
37 That they have committed adultery and there is blood on their hands? They have committed adultery with their idols; and caused their children whom they bore to me to pass through fire for them.
38 Moreover this have they done unto me: in the same day have they defiled my sanctuary and profaned my sabbaths.
39 "For when they had slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered my sanctuary on the same day to profane it. Then they did within my house.
40 And they have even sent for men to come from far, to whom a messenger was sent. And lo, they came. You washed yourself for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments,
41 "You sat on a splendid couch with a table arranged before it on which you had set my incense and my oil.
42 "The sound of a carefree multitude was with her. Drunkards were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort. And they put bracelets on the hands of the women and beautiful crowns on their heads.
43 Then I said about the one worn in adulteries, Will they now fornicate with her, and she with them ?
44 And 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 "But they, 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 on their hands.
46 "The Sovereign LORD says: 'Bring up a company against them and give them over to terror and plunder.
47 these shall stone them and gore them with their swords. They shall slay their sons and daughters and burn up their houses with fire.
48 And I will put an end to evil in all the land, teaching all women not to do as you have done.
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 Sovereign LORD.'”