¹ The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

² Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

³ 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.

⁴ 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.

⁵ And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,

⁶ Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

⁷ 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.

⁸ 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.

⁹ 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 pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed 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.

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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¹ The word ^H1697 of the LORD ^H3068 came again unto me, saying, ^H559

² Son ^H1121 of man, ^H120 there were two ^H8147 women, ^H802 the daughters ^H1323 of one ^H259 mother: ^H517

³ And they committed whoredoms ^H2181 in Egypt; ^H4714 they committed whoredoms ^H2181 in their youth: ^H5271 there were their breasts ^H7699 pressed, ^H4600 and there they bruised ^H6213 the teats ^H1717 of their virginity. ^H1331

⁴ And the names ^H8034 of them were Aholah ^H170 the elder, ^H1419 and Aholibah ^H172 her sister: ^H269 and they were mine, and they bare ^H3205 sons ^H1121 and daughters. ^H1323 Thus were their names; ^H8034 Samaria ^H8111 is Aholah, ^H170 and Jerusalem ^H3389 Aholibah. ^H172

⁵ And Aholah ^H170 played the harlot ^H2181 when she was mine; ^H8478 and she doted ^H5689 on her lovers, ^H157 on the Assyrians ^H804 her neighbours, ^H7138

⁶ Which were clothed ^H3847 with blue, ^H8504 captains ^H6346 and rulers, ^H5461 all of them desirable ^H2531 young men, ^H970 horsemen ^H6571 riding ^H7392 upon horses. ^H5483

⁷ Thus she committed ^H5414 her whoredoms ^H8457 with them, with all them that were the chosen ^H4005 men ^H1121 of Assyria, ^H804 and with all on whom she doted: ^H5689 with all their idols ^H1544 she defiled ^H2930 herself.

⁸ Neither left ^H5800 she her whoredoms ^H8457 brought from Egypt: ^H4714 for in her youth ^H5271 they lay ^H7901 with her, and they bruised ^H6213 the breasts ^H1717 of her virginity, ^H1331 and poured ^H8210 their whoredom ^H8457 upon her.

⁹ Wherefore I have delivered ^H5414 her into the hand ^H3027 of her lovers, ^H157 into the hand ^H3027 of the Assyrians, ^{H1121 H804} upon whom she doted. ^H5689

¹⁰ These discovered ^H1540 her nakedness: ^H6172 they took ^H3947 her sons ^H1121 and her daughters, ^H1323 and slew ^H2026 her with the sword: ^H2719 and she became famous ^H8034 among women; ^H802 for they had executed ^H6213 judgment ^H8196 upon her.

¹¹ And when her sister ^H269 Aholibah ^H172 saw ^H7200 this, she was more corrupt ^H7843 in her inordinate love ^H5691 than she, and in her whoredoms ^H8457 more than her sister ^H269 in her whoredoms. ^H2183

¹² She doted ^H5689 upon the Assyrians ^{H1121 H804} her neighbours, ^H7138 captains ^H6346 and rulers ^H5461 clothed ^H3847 most gorgeously, ^H4358 horsemen ^H6571 riding ^H7392 upon horses, ^H5483 all of them desirable ^H2531 young men. ^H970

¹³ Then I saw ^H7200 that she was defiled, ^H2930 that they took both ^H8147 one ^H259 way, ^H1870

¹⁴ And that she increased ^H3254 her whoredoms: ^H8457 for when she saw ^H7200 men ^H582 pourtrayed ^H2707 upon the wall, ^H7023 the images ^H6754 of the Chaldeans ^H3778 pourtrayed ^H2710 with vermilion, ^H8350

¹⁵ Girded ^H2289 with girdles ^H232 upon their loins, ^H4975 exceeding ^H5628 in dyed attire ^H2871 upon their heads, ^H7218 all of them princes ^H7991 to look to, ^H4758 after the manner ^H1823 of the Babylonians ^{H1121 H894} of Chaldea, ^H3778 the land ^H776 of their nativity: ^H4138

¹⁶ And as soon as she saw ^H4758 them with her eyes, ^H5869 she doted ^H5689 upon them, and sent ^H7971 messengers ^H4397 unto them into Chaldea. ^H3778

¹⁷ And the Babylonians ^{H1121 H894} came ^H935 to her into the bed ^H4904 of love, ^H1730 and they defiled ^H2930 her with their whoredom, ^H8457 and she was polluted ^H2930 with them, and her mind ^H5315 was alienated ^H3363 from them.

¹⁸ So she discovered ^H1540 her whoredoms, ^H8457 and discovered ^H1540 her nakedness: ^H6172 then my mind ^H5315 was alienated ^H3363 from her, like as my mind ^H5315 was alienated ^H5361 from her sister. ^H269

¹⁹ Yet she multiplied ^H7235 her whoredoms, ^H8457 in calling to remembrance ^H2142 the days ^H3117 of her youth, ^H5271 wherein she had played the harlot ^H2181 in the land ^H776 of Egypt. ^H4714

²⁰ For she doted ^H5689 upon their paramours, ^H6370 whose flesh ^H1320 is as the flesh ^H1320 of asses, ^H2543 and whose issue ^H2231 is like the issue ^H2231 of horses. ^H5483

²¹ Thus thou calledst to remembrance ^H6485 the lewdness ^H2154 of thy youth, ^H5271 in bruising ^H6213 thy teats ^H1717 by the Egyptians ^H4714 for the paps ^H7699 of thy youth. ^H5271

²² Therefore, O Aholibah, ^H172 thus saith ^H559 the Lord ^H136 GOD; ^H3069 Behold, I will raise up ^H5782 thy lovers ^H157 against thee, from whom thy mind ^H5315 is alienated, ^H5361 and I will bring ^H935 them against thee on every side; ^H5439

²³ The Babylonians, ^{H1121 H894} and all the Chaldeans, ^H3778 Pekod, ^H6489 and Shoa, ^H7772 and Koa, ^H6970 and all the Assyrians ^{H1121 H804} with them: all of them desirable ^H2531 young men, ^H970 captains ^H6346 and rulers, ^H5461 great lords ^H7991 and renowned, ^H7121 all of them riding ^H7392 upon horses. ^H5483

²⁴ And they shall come ^H935 against thee with chariots, ^H2021 wagons, ^H7393 and wheels, ^H1534 and with an assembly ^H6951 of people, ^H5971 which shall set ^H7760 against thee buckler ^H6793 and shield ^H4043 and helmet ^H6959 round about: ^H5439 and I will set ^H5414 judgment ^H4941 before ^H6440 them, and they shall judge ^H8199 thee according to their judgments. ^H4941

²⁵ And I will set ^H5414 my jealousy ^H7068 against thee, and they shall deal ^H6213 furiously ^H2534 with thee: they shall take away ^H5493 thy nose ^H639 and thine ears; ^H241 and thy remnant ^H319 shall fall ^H5307 by the sword: ^H2719 they shall take ^H3947 thy sons ^H1121 and thy daughters; ^H1323 and thy residue ^H319 shall be devoured ^H398 by the fire. ^H784

²⁶ They shall also strip ^H6584 thee out of thy clothes, ^H899 and take away ^H3947 thy fair ^H8597 jewels. ^H3627

²⁷ Thus will I make thy lewdness ^H2154 to cease ^H7673 from thee, and thy whoredom ^H2184 brought from the land ^H776 of Egypt: ^H4714 so that thou shalt not lift up ^H5375 thine eyes ^H5869 unto them, nor remember ^H2142 Egypt ^H4714 any more.

²⁸ For thus saith ^H559 the Lord ^H136 GOD; ^H3069 Behold, I will deliver ^H5414 thee into the hand ^H3027 of them whom thou hatest, ^H8130 into the hand ^H3027 of them from whom thy mind ^H5315 is alienated: ^H5361

²⁹ And they shall deal ^H6213 with thee hatefully, ^H8135 and shall take away ^H3947 all thy labour, ^H3018 and shall leave ^H5800 thee naked ^H5903 and bare: ^H6181 and the nakedness ^H6172 of thy whoredoms ^H2183 shall be discovered, ^H1540 both thy lewdness ^H2154 and thy whoredoms. ^H8457

³⁰ I will do ^H6213 these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring ^H2181 after ^H310 the heathen, ^H1471 and because thou art polluted ^H2930 with their idols. ^H1544

³¹ Thou hast walked ^H1980 in the way ^H1870 of thy sister; ^H269 therefore will I give ^H5414 her cup ^H3563 into thine hand. ^H3027

³² Thus saith ^H559 the Lord ^H136 GOD; ^H3069 Thou shalt drink ^H8354 of thy sister's ^H269 cup ^H3563 deep ^H6013 and large: ^H7342 thou shalt be laughed to scorn ^H6712 and had in derision; ^H3933 it containeth ^H3557 much. ^H4767

³³ Thou shalt be filled ^H4390 with drunkenness ^H7943 and sorrow, ^H3015 with the cup ^H3563 of astonishment ^H8047 and desolation, ^H8077 with the cup ^H3563 of thy sister ^H269 Samaria. ^H8111

³⁴ Thou shalt even drink ^H8354 it and suck it out, ^H4680 and thou shalt break ^H1633 the sherds ^H2789 thereof, and pluck off ^H5423 thine own breasts: ^H7699 for I have spoken ^H1696 it, saith ^H5002 the Lord ^H136 GOD. ^H3069

³⁵ Therefore thus saith ^H559 the Lord ^H136 GOD; ^H3069 Because thou hast forgotten ^H7911 me, and cast ^H7993 me behind ^H310 thy back, ^H1458 therefore bear ^H5375 thou also thy lewdness ^H2154 and thy whoredoms. ^H8457

³⁶ The LORD ^H3068 said ^H559 moreover unto me; Son ^H1121 of man, ^H120 wilt thou judge ^H8199 Aholah ^H170 and Aholibah? ^H172 yea, declare ^H5046 unto them their abominations; ^H8441

³⁷ That they have committed adultery, ^H5003 and blood ^H1818 is in their hands, ^H3027 and with their idols ^H1544 have they committed adultery, ^H5003 and have also caused their sons, ^H1121 whom they bare ^H3205 unto me, to pass for them through ^H5674 the fire, to devour ^H402 them.

³⁸ Moreover this they have done ^H6213 unto me: they have defiled ^H2930 my sanctuary ^H4720 in the same day, ^H3117 and have profaned ^H2490 my sabbaths. ^H7676

³⁹ For when they had slain ^H7819 their children ^H1121 to their idols, ^H1544 then they came ^H935 the same day ^H3117 into my sanctuary ^H4720 to profane ^H2490 it; and, lo, thus have they done ^H6213 in the midst ^H8432 of mine house. ^H1004

⁴⁰ And furthermore, ^H637 that ye have sent ^H7971 for men ^H582 to come ^H935 from far, ^H4801 unto whom a messenger ^H4397 was sent; ^H7971 and, lo, they came: ^H935 for whom thou didst wash ^H7364 thyself, paintedst ^H3583 thy eyes, ^H5869 and deckedst ^H5710 thyself with ornaments, ^H5716

⁴¹ And satest ^H3427 upon a stately ^H3520 bed, ^H4296 and a table ^H7979 prepared ^H6186 before ^H6440 it, whereupon thou hast set ^H7760 mine incense ^H7004 and mine oil. ^H8081

⁴² And a voice ^H6963 of a multitude ^H1995 being at ease ^H7961 was with her: and with the men ^H582 of the common sort ^{H7230 H120} were brought ^H935 Sabeans ^{H5436 H5433} from the wilderness, ^H4057 which put ^H5414 bracelets ^H6781 upon their hands, ^H3027 and beautiful ^H8597 crowns ^H5850 upon their heads. ^H7218

⁴³ Then said ^H559 I unto her that was old ^H1087 in adulteries, ^H5004 Will they now commit ^H2181 whoredoms ^H8457 with her, and she with them?

⁴⁴ Yet they went in ^H935 unto her, as they go in ^H935 unto a woman ^H802 that playeth the harlot: ^H2181 so went they in ^H935 unto Aholah ^H170 and unto Aholibah, ^H172 the lewd ^H2154 women. ^H802

⁴⁵ And the righteous ^H6662 men, ^H582 they shall judge ^H8199 them after the manner ^H4941 of adulteresses, ^H5003 and after the manner ^H4941 of women that shed ^H8210 blood; ^H1818 because they are adulteresses, ^H5003 and blood ^H1818 is in their hands. ^H3027

⁴⁶ For thus saith ^H559 the Lord ^H136 GOD; ^H3069 I will bring up ^H5927 a company ^H6951 upon them, and will give ^H5414 them to be removed ^H2189 and spoiled. ^H957

⁴⁷ And the company ^H6951 shall stone ^H7275 them with stones, ^H68 and dispatch ^H1254 them with their swords; ^H2719 they shall slay ^H2026 their sons ^H1121 and their daughters, ^H1323 and burn up ^H8313 their houses ^H1004 with fire. ^H784

⁴⁸ Thus will I cause lewdness ^H2154 to cease ^H7673 out of the land, ^H776 that all women ^H802 may be taught ^H3256 not to do ^H6213 after your lewdness. ^H2154

⁴⁹ And they shall recompense ^H5414 your lewdness ^H2154 upon you, and ye shall bear ^H5375 the sins ^H2399 of your idols: ^H1544 and ye shall know ^H3045 that I am the Lord ^H136 GOD. ^H3069

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¹ The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying,

² Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

³ and they played the harlot in Egypt; they played the harlot in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.

⁴ And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they became mine, and they bare sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.

⁵ And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians `her' neighbors,

⁶ who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

⁷ And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on whomsoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.

⁸ Neither hath she left her whoredoms since `the days of' Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their whoredom upon her.

⁹ Wherefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

¹⁰ These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they slew with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed judgments upon her.

¹¹ And her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her whoredoms which were more than the whoredoms of her sister.

¹² She doted upon the Assyrians, governors and rulers, `her' neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.

¹³ And I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way.

¹⁴ And she increased her whoredoms; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

¹⁵ girded with girdles upon their loins, with flowing turbans upon their heads, all of them princes to look upon, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their nativity.

¹⁶ And as soon as she saw them 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 soul was alienated from them.

¹⁸ So she uncovered her whoredoms, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.

¹⁹ Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, remembering the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

²⁰ And 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 the handling of thy bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of thy youth.

²² Therefore, O Oholibah, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy soul 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; desirable young men, governors and rulers all of them, princes and men of renown, all of them riding upon horses.

²⁴ And they shall come against thee with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples; they shall set themselves against thee with buckler and shield and helmet round about; and I will commit the judgment unto them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.

²⁵ And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal with thee in fury; they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.

²⁶ They shall also strip thee 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 Jehovah: Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy soul is alienated;

²⁹ and they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take away all thy labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare; and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be uncovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

³⁰ These things shall be done unto thee, for that thou hast played the harlot after the nations, 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 thy hand.

³² Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup, which is 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 drain it out, and thou shalt gnaw the sherds thereof, and shalt tear thy breasts; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.

³⁵ Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

³⁶ Jehovah said moreover unto me: Son of man, wilt thou judge Oholah and Oholibah? then declare unto them their abominations.

³⁷ For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery; and they have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass through `the fire' unto them to be devoured.

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 my house.

⁴⁰ And furthermore ye have sent for men that come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent, and, lo, they came; for whom thou didst wash thyself, paint thine eyes, and deck thyself with ornaments,

⁴¹ and sit upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon thou didst set mine incense and mine oil.

⁴² And the voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets upon the hands of them `twain', and beautiful crowns upon their heads.

⁴³ Then said I of her that was old in adulteries, Now will they play the harlot with her, and she `with them'.

⁴⁴ And they went in unto her, as they go in unto a harlot: so went they in unto Oholah and unto Oholibah, the lewd women.

⁴⁵ And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

⁴⁶ For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed to and fro and robbed.

⁴⁷ And the company shall stone them with stones, and despatch 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 Jehovah.

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¹ And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, `Son of man,

² Two women were daughters of one mother,

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

⁴ And their names `are' Aholah the elder, And Aholibah her sister, And they are Mine, and bear sons and daughters. As to their names -- Samaria `is' Aholah, And Jerusalem `is' Aholibah.

⁵ And go a-whoring doth Aholah under Me, And she doteth on her lovers, On the neighbouring Assyrians,

⁶ Clothed with blue -- governors and prefects, Desirable young men all of them, Horsemen, riding on horses,

⁷ And she giveth her whoredoms on them, The choice of the sons of Asshur, All of them -- even all on whom she doted, By all their idols she hath been defiled.

⁸ And her whoredoms out of Egypt she hath not forsaken, 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 doted.

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

¹¹ And see doth her sister Aholibah, And she maketh her doting love more corrupt than she, And her whoredoms than the whoredoms of her sister.

¹² On sons of Asshur she hath doted, Governors and prefects, Neighbouring ones -- clothed in perfection, Horsemen, riding on horses, Desirable young men all of them.

¹³ And I see that she hath been defiled, One way `is' to them both.

¹⁴ And she doth add unto her whoredoms, And she seeth graved men on the wall, Pictures of Chaldeans, graved with red lead,

¹⁵ Girded with a girdle on their loins, Dyed attire spread out on their heads, The appearance of rulers -- all of them, The likeness of sons of Babylon, Chaldea is the land of their birth.

¹⁶ And she doteth on them at the sight of her eyes, And sendeth messengers to them, to Chaldea.

¹⁷ And come in unto her do sons of Babylon, To the bed of loves, And they defile her with their whoredoms, And she is defiled with them, And her soul is alienated from them.

¹⁸ And she revealeth her whoredoms, And she revealeth her nakedness, And alienated is My soul from off her, As alienated was My soul from off her sister.

¹⁹ And she multiplieth her whoredoms, To remember the days of her youth, When she went a-whoring in the land of Egypt.

²⁰ And she doteth on their paramours, Whose flesh `is' the flesh of asses, And the issue of horses -- their issue.

²¹ Thou lookest after the wickedness of thy youth, In dealing out of Egypt thy loves, For the sake of the breasts of thy youth.

²² Therefore, O Aholibah, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am stirring up thy lovers against thee, From whom thy soul hath been alienated, And have brought them in against thee from round about.

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, Riding on horses, all of them.

²⁴ And they have come in against thee, With arms, rider, and wheel, And with an assembly of peoples; Target, and shield, and helmet, They do set against thee round about, And I have set before them judgment, They have judged thee in their Judgments.

²⁵ And I have set My jealousy against thee, And they have dealt with thee in fury, Thy nose and thine ears they turn aside, And thy posterity by sword falleth, They, thy sons and thy daughters do take away, And thy posterity is devoured by fire.

²⁶ And they have stripped thee of thy garments, And have taken thy beauteous jewels.

²⁷ And I have caused thy wickedness to cease from thee, And thy whoredoms out of the land of Egypt, And thou liftest not up thine eyes unto them, And Egypt thou dost not remember again.

²⁸ For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am giving thee into a hand that thou hast hated, Into a hand from which thou wast alienated.

²⁹ And they have dealt with thee in hatred, And they have taken all thy labour, And they have left thee naked and bare, And revealed hath been the nakedness of thy whoredoms, And the wickedness of thy whoredoms.

³⁰ To do these things to thee, In thy going a-whoring after nations, Because thou hast been defiled with their idols,

³¹ In the way of thy sister thou hast walked, And I have given her cup into thy hand.

³² Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The cup of thy sister thou dost drink, The deep and the wide one, (Thou art for laughter and for scorn,) Abundant to contain.

³³ With drunkenness and sorrow thou art filled, A cup of astonishment and desolation, The cup of thy sister Samaria.

³⁴ And thou hast drunk it, and hast drained `it', And its earthen ware thou dost gnaw, And thine own breasts thou pluckest off, For I have spoken, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah,

³⁵ Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast forgotten Me, And thou dost cast Me behind thy back, Even thou also bear thy wickedness and thy whoredoms.'

³⁶ And Jehovah saith unto me, `Son of man, Dost thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? Declare then to them their abominations.

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

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

³⁹ And in their slaughtering their sons to their idols They also come in unto My sanctuary in that day to pollute it, And lo, thus they have done in the midst of My house,

⁴⁰ And also that they send to men coming from afar, Unto whom a messenger is sent, And lo, they have come in for whom thou hast washed, Painted thine eyes, and put on adornment.

⁴¹ And thou hast sat on a couch of honour, And a table arrayed before it, And My perfume and My oil placed on it.

⁴² And the voice of a multitude at ease `is' with her, And unto men of the common people are brought in Sabeans from the wilderness, And they put bracelets on their hands, And a beauteous 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 unto her, As the coming in unto a whorish woman, So they have come in unto Aholah, And unto Aholibah -- the wicked women.

⁴⁵ As to 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 the Lord Jehovah: Bring up against them an assembly, And give them to trembling and to spoiling.

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

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

⁴⁹ And they have put your wickedness on you, And the sins of your idols ye bear, And ye have known that I `am' the Lord Jehovah!

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¹ And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

² Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.

³ And they committed whoredom in Egypt; they committed whoredom in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there were handled the teats of their virginity.

⁴ And their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister; and they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names: Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.

⁵ And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians [her] neighbours,

⁶ clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them attractive young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

⁷ And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, all of them the choice of the children of Asshur; and with all after whom she lusted, with all their idols she defiled herself.

⁸ Neither left she her whoredoms [brought] from Egypt; for in her youth they had lain with her, and had handled the breasts of her virginity, and poured their fornication upon her.

⁹ Therefore I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the children of Asshur, after whom she lusted.

¹⁰ These discovered her nakedness, they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword; and she became a name among women; and they executed judgment upon her.

¹¹ And her sister Oholibah saw [this], and was more corrupt in her passion than she, and in her fornications more than the whoredoms of her sister.

¹² She lusted after the children of Asshur [her] neighbours, governors and rulers, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them attractive young men.

¹³ And I saw that she was defiled: both took one way.

¹⁴ And she increased her fornications; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

¹⁵ girded with girdles upon their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them captains in appearance, [after] the likeness of the children of Babylon, of Chaldea, the land of their nativity.

¹⁶ And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted after them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.

¹⁷ And the children of Babylon came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their fornication; she too defiled herself with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

¹⁸ And she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness; and my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.

¹⁹ Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she played the harlot in the land of Egypt;

²⁰ and she lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is [as] the flesh of asses, and whose issue is [as] the issue of horses.

²¹ And thou didst look back to the lewdness of thy youth, in the handling of thy teats by the Egyptians, for the breasts of thy youth.

²² Therefore, Oholibah, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy soul is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side.

²³ The children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, all the children of Asshur with them; all of them attractive young men, governors and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.

²⁴ And they shall come against thee [with] armour, chariots and wheels, and with an assemblage of peoples; they shall set themselves against thee [with] target, and shield, and helmet round about; and I will put 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 cut off 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.

²⁶ They shall also strip the of thy garments, and take away thy fair jewels.

²⁷ And I will make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom [brought] from the land of Egypt; and thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.

²⁸ For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will give thee over into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy soul is alienated.

²⁹ And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare; so that the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy fornications.

³⁰ These things shall be done unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the nations, because thou hast defiled thyself with their idols.

³¹ Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; and I have given her cup into thy hand.

³² Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large; thou shalt be for a laughing-stock and a derision, [for] it containeth much.

³³ Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, the cup of thy sister Samaria;

³⁴ thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt gnaw the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord Jehovah.

³⁵ Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy fornications.

³⁶ And Jehovah said unto me, Son of man, wilt thou judge Oholah and Oholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations.

³⁷ For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also passed over unto them their children, whom they bore unto me, to be devoured.

³⁸ Moreover this have they done unto me: in the same day have they defiled my sanctuary and profaned my sabbaths.

³⁹ For when they had slaughtered their children unto their idols, they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.

⁴⁰ And furthermore, they sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thine eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments;

⁴¹ and satest upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hadst set mine incense and mine oil.

⁴² And the voice of a multitude living carelessly was with her; and with people of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, and they put bracelets upon their hands, and a beautiful crown upon their heads.

⁴³ And I said of her that was old in adulteries, Will she now commit her fornications, even she.

⁴⁴ And they went in unto her, as they go in unto a whorish woman: so went they in unto Oholah and unto Oholibah the lewd women.

⁴⁵ And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women that shed blood; for they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

⁴⁶ For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will bring up an assemblage against them, and will give them to be driven hither and thither and spoiled.

⁴⁷ And the assemblage shall stone them with stones, and despatch them with their swords; they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn their houses with fire.

⁴⁸ And I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, and all women shall receive instruction and shall not do according to 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 Jehovah.

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¹ The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,

² Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

³ and they played the prostitute in Egypt; they played the prostitute in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.

⁴ The names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.

⁵ Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors,

⁶ who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

⁷ She bestowed her prostitution on them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on whoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.

⁸ Neither has she left her prostitution since [the days of] Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their prostitution on her.

⁹ Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.

¹⁰ These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they killed with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.

¹¹ Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her prostitution which were more than the prostitution of her sister.

¹² She doted on the Assyrians, governors and rulers, [her] neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

¹³ I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way.

¹⁴ She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

¹⁵ girded with girdles on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them princes to look on, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

¹⁶ As soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

¹⁷ The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

¹⁸ So she uncovered her prostitution, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.

¹⁹ Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.

²⁰ She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

²¹ Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the handling of your bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of your youth.

²² Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side:

²³ the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, [and] all the Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors and rulers all of them, princes and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.

²⁴ They shall come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples; they shall set themselves against you with buckler and shield and helmet round about; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.

²⁵ I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal with you in fury; they shall take away your nose and your ears; and your residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take your sons and your daughters; and your residue shall be devoured by the fire.

²⁶ They shall also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels.

²⁷ Thus will I make your lewdness to cease from you, and your prostitution [brought] from the land of Egypt; so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.

²⁸ For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom your soul is alienated;

²⁹ and they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare; and the nakedness of your prostitution shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.

³⁰ These things shall be done to you, because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols.

³¹ You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I give her cup into your hand.

³² Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You shall drink of your sister's cup, which is deep and large; you shall ridiculed and had in derision; it contains much.

³³ You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.

³⁴ You shall even drink it and drain it out, and you shall gnaw the broken pieces of it, and shall tear your breasts; for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.

³⁵ Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore bear you also your lewdness and your prostitution.

³⁶ Yahweh said moreover to me: Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? then declare to them their abominations.

³⁷ For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery; and they have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through [the fire] to them to be devoured.

³⁸ Moreover this they have done to 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, behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.

⁴⁰ Furthermore you have sent for men who come from far, to whom a messenger was sent, and, behold, they came; for whom you did wash yourself, paint your eyes, and deck yourself with ornaments,

⁴¹ and sit on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you did set my incense and my oil.

⁴² The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands of them [twain], and beautiful crowns on their heads.

⁴³ Then said I of her who was old in adulteries, Now will they play the prostitute with her, and she [with them].

⁴⁴ They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute: so went they in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.

⁴⁵ Righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

⁴⁶ For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.

⁴⁷ The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall kill 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 They shall recompense your lewdness on you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols; and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.

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¹ The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

² Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother:

³ They were acting like loose women in Egypt; when they were young their behaviour was loose: there their breasts were crushed, even the points of their young breasts were crushed.

⁴ Their names were Oholah, the older, and Oholibah, her sister: and they became mine, and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem, Oholibah.

⁵ And Oholah was untrue to me when she was mine; she was full of desire for her lovers, even for the Assyrians, her neighbours,

⁶ Who were clothed in blue, captains and rulers, all of them young men to be desired, horsemen seated on horses.

⁷ And she gave her unclean love to them, all of them the noblest men of Assyria: and she made herself unclean with the images of all who were desired by her.

⁸ And she has not given up her loose ways from the time when she was in Egypt; for when she was young they were her lovers, and by them her young breasts were crushed, and they let loose on her their unclean desire.

⁹ For this cause I gave her up into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians on whom her desire was fixed.

¹⁰ By these her shame was uncovered: they took her sons and daughters and put her to death with the sword: and she became a cause of wonder to women; for they gave her the punishment which was right.

¹¹ And her sister Oholibah saw this, but her desire was even more unmeasured, and her loose behaviour was worse than that of her sister.

¹² She was full of desire for the Assyrians, captains and rulers, her neighbours, clothed in blue, horsemen going on horses, all of them young men to be desired.

¹³ And I saw that she had become unclean; the two of them went the same way.

¹⁴ And her loose behaviour became worse; for she saw men pictured on a wall, pictures of the Chaldaeans painted in bright red,

¹⁵ With bands round their bodies and with head-dresses hanging round their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the Babylonians, the land of whose birth is Chaldaea.

¹⁶ And when she saw them she was full of desire for them, and sent servants to them in Chaldaea.

¹⁷ And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and made her unclean with their loose desire, and she became unclean with them, and her soul was turned from them.

¹⁸ So her loose behaviour was clearly seen and her shame uncovered: then my soul was turned from her as it had been turned from her sister.

¹⁹ But still she went on the more with her loose behaviour, keeping in mind the early days when she had been a loose woman in the land of Egypt.

²⁰ And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is like the seed of horses.

²¹ And she made the memory of the loose ways of her early years come back to mind, when her young breasts were crushed by the Egyptians.

²² For this cause, O Oholibah, this is what the Lord has said: See, I will make your lovers come up against you, even those from whom your soul is turned away in disgust; and I will make them come up against you on every side;

²³ The Babylonians and all the Chaldaeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: young men to be desired, captains and rulers all of them, and chiefs, her neighbours, all of them on horseback.

²⁴ And they will come against you from the north on horseback, with war-carriages and a great band of peoples; they will put themselves in order against you with breastplate and body-cover and metal head-dress round about you: and I will make them your judges, and they will give their decision against you as seems right to them.

²⁵ And my bitter feeling will be working against you, and they will take you in hand with passion; they will take away your nose and your ears, and the rest of you will be put to the sword: they will take your sons and daughters, and the rest of you will be burned up in the fire.

²⁶ And they will take all your clothing off you and take away your ornaments.

²⁷ So I will put an end to your evil ways and your loose behaviour which came from the land of Egypt: and your eyes will never be lifted up to them again, and you will have no more memory of Egypt.

²⁸ For this is what the Lord has said: See, I will give you up into the hands of those who are hated by you, into the hands of those from whom your soul is turned away in disgust:

²⁹ And they will take you in hand with hate, and take away all the fruit of your work, and let you be unveiled and without clothing: and the shame of your loose behaviour will be uncovered, your evil designs and your loose ways.

³⁰ They will do these things to you because you have been untrue to me, and have gone after the nations, and have become unclean with their images.

³¹ You have gone in the way of your sister; and I will give her cup into your hand.

³² This is what the Lord has said: You will take a drink from your sister's cup, which is deep and wide: you will be laughed at and looked down on, more than you are able to undergo.

³³ You will be broken and full of sorrow, with the cup of wonder and destruction, with the cup of your sister Samaria.

³⁴ And after drinking it and draining it out, you will take the last drops of it to the end, pulling off your breasts: for I have said it, says the Lord.

³⁵ So this is what the Lord has said: Because you have not kept me in your memory, and because your back has been turned to me, you will even undergo the punishment of your evil designs and your loose ways.

³⁶ Then the Lord said to me: Son of man, will you be the judge of Oholibah? then make clear to her the disgusting things she has done.

³⁷ For she has been false to me, and blood is on her hands, and with her images she has been untrue; and more than this, she made her sons, whom she had by me, go through the fire to them to be burned up.

³⁸ Further, this is what she has done to me: she has made my holy place unclean and has made my Sabbaths unclean.

³⁹ For when she had made an offering of her children to her images, she came into my holy place to make it unclean; see, this is what she has done inside my house.

⁴⁰ And she even sent for men to come from far away, to whom a servant was sent, and they came: for whom she was washing her body and painting her eyes and making herself fair with ornaments.

⁴¹ And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put ready before it on which she put my perfume and my oil.

⁴² ... and they put jewels on her hands and beautiful crowns on her head.

⁴³ Then I said ... now she will go on with her loose ways.

⁴⁴ And they went in to her, as men go to a loose woman: so they went in to Oholibah, the loose woman.

⁴⁵ And upright men will be her judges, judging her as false wives and women who take lives are judged; because she has been untrue to me and blood is on her hands.

⁴⁶ For this is what the Lord has said: I will make a great meeting of the people come together against her, and will send on her shaking fear and take everything from her.

⁴⁷ And the meeting, after stoning her with stones, will put an end to her with their swords; they will put her sons and daughters to death and have her house burned up with fire.

⁴⁸ And I will put an end to evil in all the land, teaching all women not to do as you have done.

⁴⁹ And I will send on you the punishment of your evil ways, and you will be rewarded for your sins with your images: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.