Ezekiel:23

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ylt @Ezekiel:23:1 @And there is a word of Jehovah unto me , saying , 'Son of man , ylt @Ezekiel:23:2 @Two women were daughters of one mother , ylt @Ezekiel:23:3 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:4 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:5 @And go a-whoring doth Aholah under Me , And she doteth on her lovers , On the neighbouring Assyrians , ylt @Ezekiel:23:6 @Clothed with blue -- governors and prefects , Desirable young men all of them , Horsemen , riding on horses , ylt @Ezekiel:23:7 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:8 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:9 @Therefore I have given her into the hand of her lovers , Into the hand of sons of Asshur on whom she doted . ylt @Ezekiel:23:10 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:11 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:12 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:13 @And I see that she hath been defiled , One way [is ] to them both . ylt @Ezekiel:23:14 @And she doth add unto her whoredoms , And she seeth graved men on the wall , Pictures of Chaldeans , graved with red lead , ylt @Ezekiel:23:15 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:16 @And she doteth on them at the sight of her eyes , And sendeth messengers to them , to Chaldea . ylt @Ezekiel:23:17 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:18 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:19 @And she multiplieth her whoredoms , To remember the days of her youth , When she went a-whoring in the land of Egypt . ylt @Ezekiel:23:20 @And she doteth on their paramours , Whose flesh [is ] the flesh of asses , And the issue of horses -- their issue . ylt @Ezekiel:23:21 @Thou lookest after the wickedness of thy youth , In dealing out of Egypt thy loves , For the sake of the breasts of thy youth . ylt @Ezekiel:23:22 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:23 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:24 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:25 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:26 @And they have stripped thee of thy garments , And have taken thy beauteous jewels . ylt @Ezekiel:23:27 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:28 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:29 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:30 @To do these things to thee , In thy going a-whoring after nations , Because thou hast been defiled with their idols , ylt @Ezekiel:23:31 @In the way of thy sister thou hast walked , And I have given her cup into thy hand . ylt @Ezekiel:23:32 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:33 @With drunkenness and sorrow thou art filled , A cup of astonishment and desolation , The cup of thy sister Samaria . ylt @Ezekiel:23:34 @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 , ylt @Ezekiel:23:35 @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 .' ylt @Ezekiel:23:36 @And Jehovah saith unto me , 'Son of man , Dost thou judge Aholah and Aholibah ? Declare then to them their abominations . ylt @Ezekiel:23:37 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:38 @Again , this they have done to Me , They defiled My sanctuary in that day , And My sabbaths they have polluted . ylt @Ezekiel:23:39 @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 , ylt @Ezekiel:23:40 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:41 @And thou hast sat on a couch of honour , And a table arrayed before it , And My perfume and My oil placed on it . ylt @Ezekiel:23:42 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:43 @And I say of the worn-out one in adulteries , Now they commit her whoredoms -- she also ! ylt @Ezekiel:23:44 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:45 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:46 @For thus said the Lord Jehovah : Bring up against them an assembly , And give them to trembling and to spoiling . ylt @Ezekiel:23:47 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:48 @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 . ylt @Ezekiel:23:49 @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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