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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The word of the LORD came to me again:" |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3who acted like prostitutes in Egypt, behaving promiscuously in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin nipples caressed. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The older one was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. They became Mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah represents Samaria and Oholibah represents Jerusalem." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Oholah acted like a prostitute even though she was Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians: warriors |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6dressed in blue, governors and prefects, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on steeds. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7She offered her sexual favors to them; all of them were the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all those she lusted after and with all their idols. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8She didn't give up her promiscuity that began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin nipples, and poured out their lust on her. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Therefore, I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians she lusted for. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. Since they executed judgment against her, she became notorious among women." |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Now her sister Oholibah saw this, but she was even more depraved in her lust than Oholah, and made her promiscuous acts worse than those of her sister. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12She lusted after the Assyrians: governors and prefects, warriors splendidly dressed, horsemen riding on steeds, all of them desirable young men. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And I saw that she had defiled herself; both of them had taken the same path. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But she increased her promiscuity when she saw male figures carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like officers, a depiction of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16At the sight of them she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and defiled her with their lust. But after she was defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18When she flaunted her promiscuity and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust just as I turned away from her sister. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Yet she multiplied her acts of promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth when she acted like a prostitute in the land of Egypt |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20and lusted after their lovers, whose sexual members were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your nipples to enjoy your youthful breasts." |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Therefore Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: I am going to incite your lovers against you, those you turned away from in disgust. I will bring them against you from every side: |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans; Pekod, Shoa, and Koa; and all the Assyrians with them--desirable young men, all of them governors and prefects, officers and administrators, all of them riding on horses. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24They will come against you with an alliance of nations and with weapons, chariots, and wagons. They will set themselves against you on every side with shields, bucklers, and helmets. I will delegate judgment to them, and they will judge you by their own standards. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25When I vent My jealous rage on you, they will deal with you in wrath. They will cut off your nose and ears, and your descendants will fall by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your descendants will be consumed by fire. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26They will strip off your clothes and take your beautiful jewelry. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27So I will put an end to your indecency and sexual immorality, which began in the land of Egypt, and you will not look longingly at them or remember Egypt anymore." |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28For this is what the Lord GOD says: I am going to hand you over to those you hate, to those you turned away from in disgust. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29They will treat you with hatred, take all you have worked for, and leave you stark naked, so that the shame of your debauchery will be exposed, both your indecency and promiscuity. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30These things will be done to you because you acted like a prostitute with the nations, defiling yourself with their idols. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31You have followed the path of your sister, so I will put her cup in your hand." |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32This is what the Lord GOD says: You will drink your sister's cup, which is deep and wide. You will be an object of ridicule and scorn, for it holds so much. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34You will drink it and drain it; then you will gnaw its broken pieces, and tear your breasts. For I have spoken. This is the declaration of the Lord GOD. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: "Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, you must bear the consequences of your indecency and promiscuity." |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36Then the LORD said to me: "Son of man, will you pass judgment against Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare their detestable practices to them. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands; they have committed adultery with their idols. They have even made the children they bore to Me pass through the fire as food for the idols. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38They also did this to Me: they defiled My sanctuary on that same day and profaned My Sabbaths. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39On the same day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary to profane it. Yes, that is what they did inside My house." |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40In addition, they sent for men who came from far away when a messenger was dispatched to them. And look how they came! You bathed, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with jewelry for them. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41You sat on a luxurious couch with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and oil. |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42The sound of a carefree crowd was there. Drunkards from the desert were brought in, along with common men. They put bracelets on the women's hands and beautiful crowns on their heads. |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43Then I said concerning this woman worn out by adultery: Will they now have illicit sex with her, even her? |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44Yet they had sex with her as one does with a prostitute. This is how they had sex with Oholah and Oholibah, those obscene women. |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45But righteous men will judge them the way adulteresses and those who shed blood are judged, for they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands." |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46This is what the Lord GOD says: Summon an assembly against them and consign them to terror and plunder. |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47The assembly will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses with fire. |
| 48[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 48So I will put an end to indecency in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your indecent behavior. |
| 49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 49They will repay you for your indecency, and you will bear the consequences for your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh." |
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