Ezekiel:23

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* The word of the LORD came again unto me , saying , * Son of man , there were two women , the daughters of one mother : * 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 . * 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 . * And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine ; and she doted on her lovers , on the Assyrians her neighbours , * Which were clothed with blue , captains and rulers , all of them desirable young men , horsemen riding upon horses . * 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 . * 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 . * Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers , into the hand of the Assyrians , upon whom she doted . * 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 . * 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 . * She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours , captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously , horsemen riding upon horses , all of them desirable young men . * Then I saw that she was defiled , that they took both one way , * And that she increased her whoredoms : for when she saw men portrayed upon the wall , the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion , * 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 : * And as soon as she saw them with her eyes , she doted upon them , and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea . * 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 . * So she discovered her whoredoms , and discovered her nakedness : then my mind was alienated from her , like my mind was alienated from her sister . * 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 . * For she doted upon their paramours , whose flesh is as the flesh of asses , and whose issue is like the issue of horses . * Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth , in bruising your teats by the Egyptians for the breast of your youth . * Therefore , O Aholibah , thus says the Lord GOD ; Behold , I will raise up your lovers against you , from whom your mind is alienated , and I will bring them against you on every side ; * 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 . * And they shall come against you with chariots , wagons , and wheels , and with an assembly of people , which shall set against you buckler and shield and helmet round about : and I will set judgment before them , and they shall judge you according to their judgments . * And I will set my jealousy against you , and they shall deal furiously with you : they shall take away your nose and yours ears ; and your remnant shall fall by the sword : they shall take your sons and your daughters ; and your residue shall be devoured by the fire . * They shall also strip you out of your clothes , and take away your fair jewels . * 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 yours eyes unto them , nor remember Egypt any more . * For thus says the Lord GOD ; Behold , I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate , into the hand of them from whom your mind is alienated : * And they shall deal with you hatefully , and shall take away all your labour , and shall leave you naked and bare : and the nakedness of your whoredoms shall be discovered , both your lewdness and your whoredoms . * I will do these things unto you , because you have gone a whoring after the heathen , and because you are polluted with their idols . * You have walked in the way of your sister ; therefore will I give her cup into yours hand . * Thus says the Lord GOD ; You shall drink of your sister 's cup deep and large : you shall be laughed to scorn and had in derision ; it contains much . * You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow , with the cup of astonishment and desolation , with the cup of your sister Samaria . * You shall even drink it and suck it out , and you shall break the earthen ware thereof , and pluck off yours own breasts : for I have spoken it , says the Lord GOD . * Therefore thus says the Lord GOD ; Because you have forgotten me , and cast me behind your back , therefore bear you also your lewdness and your whoredoms . * The LORD said moreover unto me ; Son of man , will you judge Aholah and Aholibah ? yea , declare unto them their abominations ; * 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 . * Moreover this they have done unto me : they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day , and have profaned my sabbaths . * 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 . * And furthermore , that all of you have sent for men to come from far , unto whom a messenger was sent ; and , lo , they came : for whom you did wash yourself , painted your eyes , and decked yourself with ornaments , * And sat upon a stately bed , and a table prepared before it , whereupon you have set mine incense and mine oil . * 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 . * Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries , Will they now commit whoredoms with her , and she with them ? * Yet they went in unto her , as they go in unto a woman that plays the harlot : so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah , the lewd women . * 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 . * For thus says the Lord GOD ; I will bring up a company upon them , and will give them to be removed and spoiled . * 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 . * Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land , that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness . * And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you , and all of you shall bear the sins of your idols : and all of you shall know that I am the Lord GOD .

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