ULT EZE Chapter 23

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23 And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,2 “Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.3 And they whored in Egypt; in their youth they whored. There their breasts were squeezed, and there they handled the nipples of their virginity.4 And their names were Oholah the older and Oholibah her sister. And they became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And their names: Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem is Oholibah.5 And Oholah whored under me, and she lusted after her lovers, toward Assyria, near ones,6 clothed in blue, governors and prefects, all of them young men of desire, horsemen, riders of horses.7 And she gave her prostitutions to them, the choicest of the sons of Assyria, all of them; and with everyone after whom she lusted, with all their idols, she became unclean.8 And her prostitutions from Egypt she did not forsake, for they had lain with her in her youth, and they, they handled the nipples of her virginity and poured out their prostitution on her.9 Therefore I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the sons of Assyria, after whom she lusted.10 They, they uncovered her nakedness; her sons and her daughters they took, and her they killed with the sword. And she became a name for women, and they executed judgments on her.

11 And her sister Oholibah saw, and she made her lusting more corrupt than she, and her prostitutions more than the prostitutions of her sister.12 She lusted after the sons of Assyria, governors and prefects, near ones, clothed in perfection, horsemen, riders of horses, all of them young men of desire.13 And I saw that she had become unclean; one way was for the two of them.14 And she added to her prostitutions. And she saw men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans engraved in vermilion,15 girded with a belt on their loins, with hanging turbans on their heads, the appearance of captains all of them, the likeness of the sons of Babylon, Chaldea, the land of their birth.16 And she lusted after them at the sight of her eyes, and she sent messengers to them, to Chaldea.17 And the sons of Babylon came to her, to the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution; and she became unclean by them, and her soul turned away from them.18 And she uncovered her prostitutions and uncovered her nakedness, and my soul turned away from her, just as my soul had turned away from her sister.19 And she multiplied her prostitutions, to remember the days of her youth when she whored in the land of Egypt.20 And she lusted after their concubines, whose flesh was the flesh of donkeys and whose emission was the emission of horses.21 And you longed for the depravity of your youth, when they from Egypt handled your nipples, for the sake of the breasts of your youth.

22 Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am rousing your lovers against you, those from whom your soul turned away, and I will bring them against you from all around:23 the sons of Babylon and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, all the sons of Assyria with them, young men of desire, governors and prefects, all of them captains and ones called, riders of horses, all of them.24 And they will come against you with weaponry of chariot and wheel, and with an assembly of peoples. Large shield and shield and helmet they will set against you all around. And I will give judgment to their face, and they will judge you by their judgments.25 And I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in fury. Your nose and your ears they will remove, and your remnant will fall by the sword. They, they will take your sons and your daughters, and your remnant will be devoured by fire.26 And they will strip you of your garments and take the articles of your beauty.27 And I will make your depravity cease from you and your prostitution from the land of Egypt, and you will not lift your eyes to them, and Egypt you will not remember any longer.

28 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am giving you into the hand of those whom you hated, into the hand of those from whom your soul turned away.29 And they will deal with you in hatred and take all your labor and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your prostitutions will be uncovered, and your depravity and your prostitutions.30 They will do these things to you because of your whoring after the nations, because you became unclean with their idols.31 In the way of your sister you have walked, so I will give her cup into your hand.

32 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: The cup of your sister you will drink, the deep and the wide one; it will be for laughter and for scorn— abundant to contain.33 With drunkenness and sorrow you will be filled, the cup of horror and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.34 And you will drink it and drain it, and you will gnaw its shards and tear off your breasts; for I, I have spoken— the declaration of the Lord Yahweh.

35 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, so you also, bear your depravity and your prostitutions.”

36 And Yahweh said to me, “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.37 For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands; and with their idols they have committed adultery. And even their sons whom they bore to me they made pass over to them for food.38 Still this they did to me: they defiled my sanctuary on that day, and my Sabbaths they profaned.39 And when they slaughtered their sons to their idols, they came to my sanctuary on that day to profane it. And behold, thus they did in the midst of my house.40 And furthermore, they sent for men coming from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came— for whom you washed, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.41 And you sat on a glorious couch, with a table arranged to its face; and my incense and my oil you set on it.42 And the sound of a multitude at ease was with her; and to the men from the multitude of humanity, drunkards were brought from the wilderness, and they put bracelets on their hands and a crown of beauty on their heads.43 And I said of the one worn out by adulteries, ‘Now they will whore her prostitutions, and she also.’44 And he went in to her as one goes in to a prostitute woman; thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the women of depravity.45 But righteous men, they will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and the judgment of shedders of blood; for they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.

46 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Bring up against them an assembly, and give them over to horror and to plunder.47 And an assembly will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords. Their sons and their daughters they will kill, and their houses they will burn with fire.48 And I will make depravity cease from the land, and all the women will be disciplined, and they will not do according to your depravity.49 And they will put your depravity on you, and you will bear the sins of your idols; and you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”

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