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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The word of the LORD came to me: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They became prostitutes in Egypt, engaging in prostitution from their youth. In that land their breasts were fondled and their virgin bosoms caressed. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The older was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. They were mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was still mine; and she lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians--warriors |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all of them handsome young men, and mounted horsemen. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7She gave herself as a prostitute to all the elite of the Assyrians and defiled herself with all the idols of everyone she lusted after. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians, for whom she lusted. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10They stripped her naked, took away her sons and daughters and killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women, and punishment was inflicted on her. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12She too lusted after the Assyrians--governors and commanders, warriors in full dress, mounted horsemen, all handsome young men. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I saw that she too defiled herself; both of them went the same way. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans portrayed in red, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16As soon as she saw 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 in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her naked body, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will stir up your lovers against you, those you turned away from in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side-- |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, the men of Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, handsome young men, all of them governors and commanders, chariot officers and men of high rank, all mounted on horses. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24They will come against you with weapons, chariots and wagons and with a throng of people; they will take up positions against you on every side with large and small shields and with helmets. I will turn you over to them for punishment, and they will punish you according to their standards. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25I will direct my jealous anger against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will cut off your noses and your ears, and those of you who are left will fall by the sword. They will take away your sons and daughters, and those of you who are left will be consumed by fire. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26They will also strip you of your clothes and take your fine jewelry. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27So I will put a stop to the lewdness and prostitution you began in Egypt. You will not look on these things with longing or remember Egypt anymore. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28"For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am about to deliver you into the hands of those you hate, to those you turned away from in disgust. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29They will deal with you in hatred and take away everything you have worked for. They will leave you stark naked, and the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your lewdness and promiscuity |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30have brought this on you, because you lusted after the nations and defiled yourself with their idols. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31You have gone the way of your sister; so I will put her cup into your hand. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32"This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "You will drink your sister's cup, a cup large and deep; it will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, the cup of ruin and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34You will drink it and drain it dry and chew on its pieces-- and you will tear your breasts. I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35"Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Since you have forgotten me and turned your back on me, you must bear the consequences of your lewdness and prostitution." |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36The LORD said to me: "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then confront them with their detestable practices, |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37for they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, as food for them. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38They have also done this to me: At that same time they defiled my sanctuary and desecrated my Sabbaths. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39On the very day they sacrificed their children to their idols, they entered my sanctuary and desecrated it. That is what they did in my house. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40"They even sent messengers for men who came from far away, and when they arrived you bathed yourself for them, applied eye makeup and put on your jewelry. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41You sat on an elegant couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed the incense and olive oil that belonged to me. |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42"The noise of a carefree crowd was around her; drunkards were brought from the desert along with men from the rabble, and they put bracelets on the wrists of the woman and her sister and beautiful crowns on their heads. |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, 'Now let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is.' |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44And they slept with her. As men sleep with a prostitute, so they slept with those lewd women, Oholah and Oholibah. |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45But righteous judges will sentence them to the punishment of women who commit adultery and shed blood, because they are adulterous and blood is on their hands. |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46"This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Bring a mob against them and give them over to terror and plunder. |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses. |
| 48[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 48"So I will put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not imitate you. |
| 49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 49You will suffer the penalty for your lewdness and bear the consequences of your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD." |
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