Ezekiel 23:13-49

13I saw that she had defiled herself; they both took 1the same way. 14So she increased her harlotries. And she saw men 2portrayed on the wall, images of the 3Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, 15girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, 4like the 5Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth. 166When she saw them she 7lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. 17The 89Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their harlotry. And when she had been defiled by them, 10she became disgusted with them. 18She 11uncovered her harlotries and uncovered her nakedness; then 12I became 13disgusted with her, as 14I had become disgusted with her 15sister. 19Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt. 20She 16lusted 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 17lewdness of your youth, when 18the Egyptians handled your bosom because of the breasts of your youth.

22“Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord 19God, ‘Behold I will arouse your lovers against you, from whom 20you were alienated, and I will bring them against you from every side: 23the 2122Babylonians and all the 23Chaldeans, 24Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the 2526Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors and officials all of them, officers and 27men of renown, all of them riding on horses. 24They will come against you with weapons, 28chariots and 29wagons, 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 30judgment to them, and they will judge you according to their customs. 25I will set My 31jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in wrath. They will remove your nose and your ears; and your 32survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your 33sons and your daughters; and your 34survivors will be consumed by the fire. 26They will also 35strip you of your clothes and take away your 36beautiful jewels. 27Thus 37I 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 38hate, into the hand of those from whom 39you were alienated. 29They will 40deal 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 41played 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 42her cup into your hand.’ 32Thus says the Lord God, ‘You will 43drink your sister’s cup, Which is deep and wide. 44You will be 45laughed at and held in derision; It contains much.33You will be filled with 46drunkenness and sorrow, The cup of horror and desolation, The cup of your sister Samaria.34You will 47drink 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 48forgotten Me and 49cast Me behind your back, bear now the punishment of your lewdness and your harlotries.’”

36Moreover, the Lord said to me, “Son of man, will you 50judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then 51declare to them their abominations. 37For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. Thus they have committed adultery with their idols and even caused their sons, 52whom they bore to Me, to pass through the fire to 53them as food. 38Again, they have done this to Me: they have 54defiled My sanctuary on the same day and have 55profaned My sabbaths. 39For when they had slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My 56sanctuary on the same day to profane it; and lo, thus they did within My house.

40“Furthermore, 57they have even sent for men who come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and lo, they came--for whom you bathed, 58painted your eyes and 59decorated yourselves with ornaments; 41and you sat on a splendid 60couch with a 61table arranged before it on which you had set My 62incense and My 63oil. 42The sound of a 6465carefree multitude was with her; and 66drunkards were brought from the wilderness with men of the 67common sort. And they put 68bracelets on 69the hands of the women and beautiful crowns on their heads.

43“Then I said concerning her who was 70worn out by adulteries, ‘71Will they now commit adultery with her when she is thus?’ 4472But they went in to her as they would go in to a harlot. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women. 45But they, righteous men, will 73judge 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“For thus says the Lord God, ‘Bring up a company against them and give them over to 74terror and plunder. 47The company will 75stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will slay their sons and their daughters and 76burn their houses with fire. 48Thus I will make lewdness cease from the land, that all women may be admonished and not commit 77lewdness as you have done. 49Your lewdness 78will be 79requited upon you, and you will bear the penalty of worshiping your idols; thus you will know that I am the Lord God.’”