Ezekiel 23
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Ezekiel 23:22-35

22“Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord 1God, ‘Behold I will arouse your lovers against you, from whom 2you were alienated, and I will bring them against you from every side: 23the 34Babylonians and all the 5Chaldeans, 6Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the 78Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors and officials all of them, officers and 9men of renown, all of them riding on horses. 24They will come against you with weapons, 10chariots and 11wagons, 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 12judgment to them, and they will judge you according to their customs. 25I will set My 13jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in wrath. They will remove your nose and your ears; and your 14survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your 15sons and your daughters; and your 16survivors will be consumed by the fire. 26They will also 17strip you of your clothes and take away your 18beautiful jewels. 27Thus 19I 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 20hate, into the hand of those from whom 21you were alienated. 29They will 22deal 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 23played 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 24her cup into your hand.’ 32Thus says the Lord God, ‘You will 25drink your sister’s cup, Which is deep and wide. 26You will be 27laughed at and held in derision; It contains much.33You will be filled with 28drunkenness and sorrow, The cup of horror and desolation, The cup of your sister Samaria.34You will 29drink 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 30forgotten Me and 31cast Me behind your back, bear now the punishment of your lewdness and your harlotries.’”

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Notes

  1. 1. Ezekiel 23:22 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch ↩
  2. 2. Ezekiel 23:22 Lit your soul was alienated ↩
  3. 3. Ezekiel 23:23 Lit sons of Babylon ↩
  4. 4. Ezekiel 23:23 2 Kin 20:14-17; Ezek 21:19; 23:14-17 ↩
  5. 5. Ezekiel 23:23 2 Kin 24:2; Job 1:17; Is 23:13 ↩
  6. 6. Ezekiel 23:23 Jer 50:21 ↩
  7. 7. Ezekiel 23:23 Lit sons of Assyria ↩
  8. 8. Ezekiel 23:23 Gen 2:14; 25:18; Ezra 6:22 ↩
  9. 9. Ezekiel 23:23 Lit the called ones ↩
  10. 10. Ezekiel 23:24 Jer 47:3; Ezek 26:10; Nah 2:3, 4 ↩
  11. 11. Ezekiel 23:24 Lit wheels ↩
  12. 12. Ezekiel 23:24 Jer 39:5, 6; Ezek 16:38; 23:45 ↩
  13. 13. Ezekiel 23:25 Ex 34:14; Ezek 5:13; 8:17, 18; Zeph 1:18 ↩
  14. 14. Ezekiel 23:25 Lit remainder ↩
  15. 15. Ezekiel 23:25 Ezek 23:47; Hos 2:4 ↩
  16. 16. Ezekiel 23:25 Lit remainder ↩
  17. 17. Ezekiel 23:26 Jer 13:22; Ezek 16:39; 23:29 ↩
  18. 18. Ezekiel 23:26 Is 3:18-23 ↩
  19. 19. Ezekiel 23:27 Ezek 16:41 ↩
  20. 20. Ezekiel 23:28 Jer 21:7-10; 34:20; Ezek 16:37; 23:17, 22 ↩
  21. 21. Ezekiel 23:28 Lit your soul was alienated ↩
  22. 22. Ezekiel 23:29 Deut 28:48; Ezek 23:25, 26, 45-47 ↩
  23. 23. Ezekiel 23:30 Ezek 6:9 ↩
  24. 24. Ezekiel 23:31 2 Kin 21:13; Jer 7:14, 15; Ezek 23:33 ↩
  25. 25. Ezekiel 23:32 Ps 60:3; Is 51:17; Jer 25:15 ↩
  26. 26. Ezekiel 23:32 Or It will be for jesting and deriding because of its great size ↩
  27. 27. Ezekiel 23:32 Ezek 5:14, 15; 16:57; 22:4, 5 ↩
  28. 28. Ezekiel 23:33 Jer 25:15, 16, 27; Hab 2:16 ↩
  29. 29. Ezekiel 23:34 Ps 75:8; Is 51:17 ↩
  30. 30. Ezekiel 23:35 Is 17:10; Jer 3:21; Ezek 22:12; Hos 8:14; 13:6 ↩
  31. 31. Ezekiel 23:35 1 Kin 14:9; Jer 2:27; 32:33 ↩

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