Ezekiel 23:36-49

36Then Adonai said to me, “Son of man, will you pass judgment on Oholah and Oholibah? Confront them with their disgusting practices.

37For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols and even offered their children, whom they bore for Me, to be devoured.

38Again, this they have done to Me—they defiled My Sanctuary on the same day and profaned My Shabbatot.

39On the same day that they slaughtered their children to their idols, they came into My Sanctuary to profane it. See, that is what they have done within My House!

40“Furthermore, they sent for men who come from far away. A messenger was sent to them, and look, they came! For them you bathed, painted your eyes and decked yourself with jewelry.

41You sat on a glorious bed, with a table arranged before it, on which you set out My incense and My oil.

42The sound of a carefree crowd was with her. Many of the men who came from the desert were drunkards. They put bracelets on their hands and beautiful crowns on their heads.”

43Then I said about her, worn out from harlotry: “Still they commit immorality with her—even her?

44They keep going to her, as they go to a prostitute. So they went to Oholah and to Oholibah—the obscene women.

45Righteous men would judge them as adulteresses are judged and as those who shed blood are judged. For they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.”

46For thus says Adonai Elohim: “Bring up an assembly against them. Give them over to terror and plunder.

47The assembly will stone them to death and dispatch them with their swords. They will slaughter their sons and daughters. They will burn down their houses.

48So I will make obscenity cease from the land, that all women may be taught not to imitate your obscenity.

49They will repay you both for wickedness and you will bear the sins of your idols. So you will know that I am Adonai.”