23 The
word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 2 Son
of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: 3 And
they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth:
there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of
their virginity. 4 And
the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and
they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names;
Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah. 5 And
Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers,
on the Assyrians her neighbours, 6 Which
were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young
men, horsemen riding upon horses. 7 Thus
she committed her whoredoms 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. 8 Neither
left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with
her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom
upon her. 9 Wherefore
I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the
Assyrians, upon whom she doted. 10 These
discovered 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. 11 And
when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate
love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms. 12 She
doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most
gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men. 13 Then
I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way, 14 And
that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon
the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, 15 Girded
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: 16 And
as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers
unto them into Chaldea. 17 And
the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her
with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was
alienated from them. 18 So
she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind
was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister. 19 Yet
she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her
youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. 20 For
she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses,
and whose issue is like the issue of horses. 21 Thus
thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy
teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth. 22 Therefore,
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; 23 The
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. 24 And
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 round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they
shall judge thee according to their judgments.
25
And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with
thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine 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. 26 They
shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels. 27 Thus
will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from
the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them,
nor remember Egypt any more. 28 For
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: 29 And
they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour,
and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms
shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. 30 I will
do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen,
and because thou art polluted with their idols. 31 Thou
hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into
thine hand. 32 Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large:
thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much. 33 Thou
shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment
and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. 34 Thou
shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof,
and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. 35 Therefore
thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind
thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. 36 The
LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah?
yea, declare unto them their abominations; 37 That
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 bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them. 38 Moreover
this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same
day, and have profaned my sabbaths. 39 For
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 mine house. 40 And
furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger
was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst
thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments, 41 And
satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou
hast set mine incense and mine oil. 42 And
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, which put bracelets
upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads. 43 Then
said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms
with her, and she with them? 44 Yet
they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot:
so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women. 45 And
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. 46 For
thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give
them to be removed and spoiled. 47 And
the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords;
they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses
with fire. 48 Thus
will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught
not to do after your lewdness. 49 And
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.
