23Ezekiel 23

1The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,Select Ezekiel 23:1

2Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:Select Ezekiel 23:2

3And they committed lewd deeds in Egypt; they committed lewd deeds in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they were first corrupted.Select Ezekiel 23:3

4And the names of them [were] Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters. Thus [were] their names; Samaria [is] Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.Select Ezekiel 23:4

5And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors.Select Ezekiel 23:5

6[Who were] clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.Select Ezekiel 23:6

7Thus she committed her lewd deeds with them, with all them [that were] the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.Select Ezekiel 23:7

8Neither left she her lewd deeds [brought] from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they first corrupted her, and poured their impurities upon her.Select Ezekiel 23:8

9Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.Select Ezekiel 23:9

10These uncovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.Select Ezekiel 23:10

11And when her sister Aholibah saw [this], she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her prostitutions more than her sister in [her] prostitutions.Select Ezekiel 23:11

12She doted upon the Assyrians [her] neighbors, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.Select Ezekiel 23:12

13Then I saw that she was defiled, [that] they [took] both one way.Select Ezekiel 23:13

14And [that] she increased her prostitutions: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion.Select Ezekiel 23:14

15Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:Select Ezekiel 23:15

16And as soon as she saw them with her eyes she doted upon them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.Select Ezekiel 23:16

17And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their lewdness, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.Select Ezekiel 23:17

18So she disclosed her lewd deeds, and exposed her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, as my mind was alienated from her sister.Select Ezekiel 23:18

19Yet she multiplied her prostitutions, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, in which she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.Select Ezekiel 23:19

20For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh [is as] the flesh of asses, and whose issue [is like] the issue of horses.Select Ezekiel 23:20

21Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, by being corrupted by the Egyptians in thy youth.Select Ezekiel 23:21

22Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;Select Ezekiel 23:22

23The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, [and] all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.Select Ezekiel 23:23

24And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, [which] shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet on every side: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.Select Ezekiel 23:24

25And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thy ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.Select Ezekiel 23:25

26They shall also strip thee of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.Select Ezekiel 23:26

27Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy adultery [brought] from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thy eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.Select Ezekiel 23:27

28For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand [of them] whom thou hatest, into the hand [of them] from whom thy mind is alienated:Select Ezekiel 23:28

29And they shall treat thee with hatred, and shall take away all thy labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy prostitutions shall be disclosed, both thy lewdness and thy prostitutions.Select Ezekiel 23:29

30I will do these [things] to thee, because thou hast gone astray after the heathen, [and] because thou art polluted with their idols.Select Ezekiel 23:30

31Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thy hand.Select Ezekiel 23:31

32Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be treated with scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.Select Ezekiel 23:32

33Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.Select Ezekiel 23:33

34Thou shalt even drink it, and empty it to the dregs, and thou shalt break its pieces, and pluck off thy own breasts: for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD.Select Ezekiel 23:34

35Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy prostitutions.Select Ezekiel 23:35

36The LORD said moreover to me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yes, declare to them their abominations;Select Ezekiel 23:36

37That they have committed adultery, and blood [is] in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass for them through [the fire], to devour [them].Select Ezekiel 23:37

38Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.Select Ezekiel 23:38

39For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and lo, thus have they done in the midst of my house.Select Ezekiel 23:39

40And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, to whom a messenger [was] sent; and lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paint thy eyes, and deck thyself with ornaments,Select Ezekiel 23:40

41And sattest upon a stately bed and a table prepared before it, upon which thou hast set my incense and my oil.Select Ezekiel 23:41

42And a voice of a multitude being at ease [was] with her: and with the men of the common sort [were] brought Sabeans from the wilderness, who put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.Select Ezekiel 23:42

43Then said I to [her that was] old in adulteries, Will they now commit lewd deeds with her, and she [with them]?Select Ezekiel 23:43

44Yet they went in to her, as they go in to a woman that playeth the harlot: so they went in to Aholah and to Aholibah, the lewd women.Select Ezekiel 23:44

45And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they [are] adulteresses, and blood [is] in their hands.Select Ezekiel 23:45

46For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and plundered.Select Ezekiel 23:46

47And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn their houses with fire.Select Ezekiel 23:47

48Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.Select Ezekiel 23:48

49And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.Select Ezekiel 23:49