Ezekiel:23

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* And the word of Jehovah came unto me , saying , * Son of man , there were two women , daughters of one mother . * 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 . * 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 . * And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine ; and she lusted after her lovers , after the Assyrians [her ] neighbours , * clothed with blue , governors and rulers , all of them attractive young men , horsemen riding upon horses . * 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 . * 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 . * Therefore I gave her into the hand of her lovers , into the hand of the children of Asshur , after whom she lusted . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * And I saw that she was defiled : both took one way . * And she increased her fornications ; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall , the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion , * 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 . * And as soon as she saw them with her eyes , she lusted after them , and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea . * 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 . * 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 . * Yet she multiplied her whoredoms , calling to remembrance the days of her youth , wherein she played the harlot in the land of Egypt ; * and she lusted after their paramours , whose flesh is [as ] the flesh of asses , and whose issue is [as ] the issue of horses . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * They shall also strip the of thy garments , and take away thy fair jewels . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * These things shall be done unto thee , because thou hast gone a whoring after the nations , because thou hast defiled thyself with their idols . * Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister ; and I have given her cup into thy hand . * 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 . * Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow , with the cup of astonishment and desolation , the cup of thy sister Samaria ; * 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 . * 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 . * And Jehovah said unto me , Son of man , wilt thou judge Oholah and Oholibah ? yea , declare unto them their abominations . * 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 . * Moreover this have they done unto me : in the same day have they defiled my sanctuary and profaned my sabbaths . * 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 . * 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 ; * and satest upon a stately bed , with a table prepared before it , whereupon thou hadst set mine incense and mine oil . * 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 . * And I said of her that was old in adulteries , Will she now commit her fornications , even she . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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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