Ezekiel 23:13-49

13And I saw that she had defiled herself; they both took 1the same way. 14So she increased her obscene practices. And she saw men 2carved on the wall, images of the 3Chaldeans drawn in bright red, 15wearing belts around their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, 4like the 5Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth. 16And 6when she saw them she 7lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. 17And the 89Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their obscene practice. And when she had been defiled by them, 10she turned away from them in disgust. 18She 11exposed her obscene practices and exposed her nakedness; then 12I turned away from her in 13disgust, just as 14I had turned away from her 15sister in disgust. 19Yet she multiplied her obscene practices, remembering the days of her youth, when she prostituted herself in the land of Egypt. 20She 16lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose discharge is like the discharge of horses. 21So you longed for the 17outrageous sin of your youth, when 18the Egyptians handled your breasts because of the breasts of your youth.

22“Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord 19God says: ‘Behold I am going to incite your lovers against you, from whom 20you turned away in disgust, 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; handsome young men, governors and officials all of them, officers and 27men of renown, all of them riding on horses. 24And they will come against you with weapons, 28chariots, and 29wagons, and with a contingent of peoples. They will attack you on every side with shield, 30buckler, and helmet; and I will commit the 31judgment to them, and they will judge you according to their customs. 25I will set My 32jealousy against you, so that they may deal with you in wrath. They will remove your nose and your ears; and your 33survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your 34sons and your daughters; and your 35survivors will be consumed by the fire. 26They will also 36strip you of your clothes and take away your 37beautiful jewelry. 27So 38I will remove from you your outrageous sin and your prostitution that you brought from the land of Egypt, so that you will not raise your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.’ 28For this is what the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I am going to hand you over to those whom you 39hate, to those from whom 40you turned away in disgust. 29They will 41deal with you in hatred, take all your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your prostitution will be exposed, both your outrageous sin and your obscene practices. 30These things will be done to you because you have 42adulterously pursued the nations, because you have defiled yourself with their idols. 31You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will put 43her cup in your hand.’ 32This is what the Lord God says: ‘You will 44drink your sister’s cup, Which is deep and wide. 45You will be 46laughed at and held in derision; Because it contains much.33You will be filled with 47drunkenness and grief, A cup of horror and desolation, The cup of your sister Samaria.34And you will 48drink it and drain it. Then you will gnaw on its fragments And tear your breasts; for I have spoken,’ declares the Lord God. 35Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: ‘Because you have 49forgotten Me and 50discarded Me behind your back, suffer on your own part the punishment for your outrageous sin and your obscene practices.’”

36Moreover, the Lord said to me, “Son of man, will you 51judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then 52declare to them their abominations. 37For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. So they have committed adultery with their idols, and even made their sons, 53whom they bore to Me, pass through the fire to 54them as food. 38Again, they have done this to Me: they have 55defiled My sanctuary on the same day, and have 56profaned My Sabbaths. 39For when they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My 57sanctuary on the same day to profane it; and behold, this is what they did within My house.

40“Furthermore, 58they have even sent for men who come from a great distance, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came--for whom you bathed, 59put makeup on your eyes, and 60adorned yourselves with jewelry; 41and you sat on a splendid 61couch with a 62table arranged in front of it on which you had set My 63incense and My 64oil. 42And the sound of a 6566carefree multitude was with her; and 67heavy drinkers were brought from the wilderness with people from the multitude of humanity. And they put 68bracelets on 69the wrists 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 like this?’ 4472But they went in to her as they would go in to a prostitute. This is how they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women. 45But they, righteous people, 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 this is what the Lord God says: ‘Bring up a contingent against them and turn them over to 74terror and plunder. 47The contingent will 75stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and their daughters and 76burn their houses with fire. 48So I will eliminate outrageous conduct from the land, so that all women will take warning and not commit 77outrageous sin as you have done. 49Your outrageous conduct 78will be 79repaid to you, and you will bear the guilt for your idols; so you will know that I am the Lord God.’”