Ezekiel 23:11-35

11“Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was 1more corrupt in her lust than she, and her harlotries were more than the harlotries of her sister. 12She lusted after the 23Assyrians, governors and officials, the ones near, magnificently dressed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men. 13I saw that she had defiled herself; they both took 4the same way. 14So she increased her harlotries. And she saw men 5portrayed on the wall, images of the 6Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, 15girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, 7like the 8Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth. 169When she saw them she 10lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. 17The 1112Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their harlotry. And when she had been defiled by them, 13she became disgusted with them. 18She 14uncovered her harlotries and uncovered her nakedness; then 15I became 16disgusted with her, as 17I had become disgusted with her 18sister. 19Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt. 20She 19lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses. 21Thus you longed for the 20lewdness of your youth, when 21the Egyptians handled your bosom because of the breasts of your youth.

22“Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord 22God, ‘Behold I will arouse your lovers against you, from whom 23you were alienated, and I will bring them against you from every side: 23the 2425Babylonians and all the 26Chaldeans, 27Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the 2829Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors and officials all of them, officers and 30men of renown, all of them riding on horses. 24They will come against you with weapons, 31chariots and 32wagons, and with a company of peoples. They will set themselves against you on every side with buckler and shield and helmet; and I will commit the 33judgment to them, and they will judge you according to their customs. 25I will set My 34jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in wrath. They will remove your nose and your ears; and your 35survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your 36sons and your daughters; and your 37survivors will be consumed by the fire. 26They will also 38strip you of your clothes and take away your 39beautiful jewels. 27Thus 40I will make your lewdness and your harlotry brought from the land of Egypt to cease from you, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.’ 28For thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I will give you into the hand of those whom you 41hate, into the hand of those from whom 42you were alienated. 29They will 43deal with you in hatred, take all your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your harlotries will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your harlotries. 30These things will be done to you because you have 44played the harlot with the nations, because you have defiled yourself with their idols. 31You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will give 45her cup into your hand.’ 32Thus says the Lord God, ‘You will 46drink your sister’s cup, Which is deep and wide. 47You will be 48laughed at and held in derision; It contains much.33You will be filled with 49drunkenness and sorrow, The cup of horror and desolation, The cup of your sister Samaria.34You will 50drink it and drain it. Then you will gnaw its fragments And tear your breasts; for I have spoken,’ declares the Lord God. 35Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Because you have 51forgotten Me and 52cast Me behind your back, bear now the punishment of your lewdness and your harlotries.’”