Ezek 23
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The word of YHWH came again to me, saying,
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Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
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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.
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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.
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And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the
Assyrians [her] neighbors,
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who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men,
horsemen riding upon horses.
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And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them;
and on whomever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.
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Neither has 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.
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Wherefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians,
upon whom she doted.
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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.
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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.
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She doted upon the Assyrians, governors and rulers, [her] neighbors, clothed most
gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
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And I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way.
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And she increased her whoredoms; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images
of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,
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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.
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And as soon as she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers to them into
Chaldea.
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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.
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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.
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Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, remembering the days of her youth, wherein she had
played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
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And she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose
issue is like the issue of horses.
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Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth, in the handling of your
bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of your youth.
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Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord YHWH: 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:
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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.
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And 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.
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And 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.
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They shall also strip you of your clothes, and take away your fair jewels.
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Thus will I make your lewdness to cease from you, and your whoredom [brought] from
the land of Egypt; so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt
any more.
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For thus says the Lord YHWH: Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom
you hate, into the hand of them from whom your soul is alienated;
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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 whoredoms shall be uncovered,
both your lewdness and your whoredoms.
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These things shall be done to you, for that you have played the harlot after the nations,
and because you are polluted with their idols.
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You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I give her cup into your
hand.
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Thus says the Lord YHWH: You shall drink of your sister`s cup, which is deep and large;
you shall be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it contains much.
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You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and
desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.
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You shall even drink it and drain it out, and you shall gnaw its sherds, and
shall tear your breasts; for I have spoken it, says the Lord YHWH.
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Therefore thus says the Lord YHWH: Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind
your back, therefore bear you also your lewdness and your whoredoms.
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YHWH said moreover to me: Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? then declare
to them their abominations.
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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
to me, to pass through [the fire] to them to be devoured.
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Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day,
and have profaned my sabbaths.
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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.
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And furthermore you have sent for men that 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,
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and sit upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you did set
mine incense and mine oil.
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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.
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Then said I of her that was old in adulteries, Now will they play the harlot with
her, and she [with them].
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And they went in to her, as they go in to a harlot: so went they in to Oholah and
to Oholibah, the lewd women.
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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.
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For thus says the Lord YHWH: I will bring up a company against them, and will give
them to be tossed to and fro and robbed.
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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.
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Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught
not to do after your lewdness.
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And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the sins of your
idols; and you shall know that I am the Lord YHWH.