The word
of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
02 Son of man, there were two women, the
daughters of one mother:
03 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.
04 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.
05 And Aholah played the harlot when she was
mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the
Assyrians her neighbours,
06 Which were clothed with blue, captains and
rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen
riding upon horses.
07 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.
08 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.
09 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 portrayed upon the wall, the images
of the Chaldeans portrayed 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.
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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.
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