Ezekiel 23:1-13 ▼

1 And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying, “Son of man,

2 Two women were daughters of one mother,

3 And they go whoring in Egypt, || They have gone whoring in their youth, || There they have bruised their breasts, || And there they have dealt with the loves of their virginity.

4 And their names [are] Aholah the older, || And Aholibah her sister, || And they are Mine, and bear sons and daughters. As for their names—Samaria [is] Aholah, || And Jerusalem [is] Aholibah.

5 And Aholah goes whoring under Me, and she lusts on her lovers, on the neighboring Assyrians,

6 Clothed with blue—governors and prefects, || All of them desirable young men, || Horsemen, riding on horses,

7 And she gives her whoredoms on them, || The choice of the sons of Asshur, || All of them—even all on whom she lusted, || She has been defiled by all their idols.

8 And she has not forsaken her whoredoms out of Egypt, || For with her they lay in her youth, || And they dealt with the loves of her virginity, || And they pour out their whoredoms on her.

9 Therefore I have given her into the hand of her lovers, || Into the hand of sons of Asshur on whom she lusted.

10 They have uncovered her nakedness, || They have taken her sons and her daughters, || And they have slain her by sword, || And she is a name for women, || And they have done judgments with her.

11 And her sister Aholibah sees, || And she makes her unhealthy love more corrupt than she, || And her whoredoms than the whoredoms of her sister.

12 She has lusted on sons of Asshur, || Governors and prefects, || Neighboring ones—clothed in perfection, || Horsemen, riding on horses, || All of them desirable young men.

13 And I see that she has been defiled, || One way [is] to them both.