Ezekiel 23:22-49 ▼

22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus said Lord YHWH: Behold, I am stirring up your lovers against you, || From whom your soul has been alienated, || And have brought them in against you from all around.

23 Sons of Babylon, and of all Chaldea, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, || All the sons of Asshur with them, || Desirable young men, governors and prefects, || All of them—rulers and proclaimed ones, || All of them riding on horses.

24 And they have come in against you, || With arms, rider, and wheel, || And with an assembly of peoples; Buckler, and shield, and helmet, || They set against you all around, || And I have set judgment before them, || They have judged you in their judgments.

25 And I have set My jealousy against you, || And they have dealt with you in fury, || They turn aside your nose and your ears, || And your posterity falls by sword, || They take away your sons and your daughters, || And your posterity is devoured by fire.

26 And they have stripped you of your garments, || And have taken your beautiful jewels.

27 And I have caused your wickedness to cease from you, || And your whoredoms out of the land of Egypt, || And you do not lift up your eyes to them, || And you do not remember Egypt again.

28 For thus said Lord YHWH: Behold, I am giving you into a hand that you have hated, || Into a hand from which you were alienated.

29 And they have dealt with you in hatred, || And they have taken all your labor, || And they have left you naked and bare, || And the nakedness of your whoredoms has been revealed, || And the wickedness of your whoredoms.

30 To do these things to you, || In your going whoring after nations, || Because you have been defiled with their idols,

31 You have walked in the way of your sister, || And I have given her cup into your hand.

32 Thus said Lord YHWH: You drink the cup of your sister, || The deep and the wide one || (You are for laughter and for scorn), || Abundant to contain.

33 You are filled with drunkenness and sorrow, || A cup of astonishment and desolation, || The cup of your sister Samaria.

34 And you have drunk it, and have drained [it], || And you gnaw its earthen ware, || And you pluck off your own breasts, || For I have spoken, || A declaration of Lord YHWH,

35 Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH: Because you have forgotten Me, || And you cast Me behind your back, || Even you also bear your wickedness and your whoredoms.”

36 And YHWH says to me, “Son of man, || Do you judge Aholah and Aholibah? Then declare their abominations to them.

37 For they have committed adultery, || And blood [is] in their hands, || They committed adultery with their idols, || And also their sons whom they bore to Me, || They caused to pass over to them for food.

38 Again, they have done this to Me, || They defiled My sanctuary in that day, || And they have defiled My Sabbaths.

39 And in their slaughtering their sons to their idols || They also come into My sanctuary in that day to defile it, || And behold, thus they have done in the midst of My house,

40 And also that they send to men coming from afar, || To whom a messenger is sent, || And behold, they have come in for whom you have washed, || Painted your eyes, and put on adornment.

41 And you have sat on a couch of honor, || And a table arrayed before it, || And placed My incense and My oil on it.

42 And the voice of a multitude at ease [is] with her, || And Sabeans from the wilderness are brought in to men of the common people, || And they put bracelets on their hands, || And a beautiful crown on their heads.

43 And I say of the worn-out one in adulteries, || Now they commit her whoredoms—she also!

44 And they come in to her, || As the coming in to a whorish woman, || So they have come in to Aholah, || And to Aholibah—the wicked women.

45 As for righteous men, they judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, || And the judgment of women shedding blood, || For they [are] adulteresses, || And blood [is] in their hands.

46 For thus said Lord YHWH: Bring up an assembly against them, || And give them to trembling and to spoiling.

47 And they have cast the stone of the assembly at them, || And cut them with their swords, || They slay their sons and their daughters, || And they burn their houses with fire.

48 And I have caused wickedness to cease from the land, || And all the women have been instructed, || And they do not do according to your wickedness.

49 And they have put your wickedness on you, || And you bear the sins of your idols, || And you have known that I [am] Lord YHWH!”