23:1 And the word of the Lord came to me,
saying,
23:2 Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother:
23:3 and they went a-whoring in Egypt in their youth: there their breasts
fell, there they lost their virginity.
23:4 And their names were Oola the elder, and Ooliba her sister: and they
were mine, and bore sons and daughters: and [as for] their names, Samaria
was Oola, and Jerusalem was Ooliba.
23:5 And Oola went a-whoring from me, and doted on her lovers, on the
Assyrians that were her neighbors,
23:6 clothed with purple, princes and captains; [they were] young men and
choice, all horseman riding on horses.
23:7 And she bestowed her fornication upon them; all were choice sons of the
Assyrians: and on whomsoever she doted herself, with them she defiled
herself in all [their] devices.
23:8 And she forsook not her fornication with the Egyptians: for in her
youth they committed fornication with her, and they deflowered her, and
poured out their fornication upon her.
23:9 Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands
of the children of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.
23:10 They uncovered her shame: they took her sons and daughters, and slew
her with the sword: and she became a byword among women: and they wrought
vengeance in her for the sake of the daughters.
23:11 And her sister Ooliba saw [it], and she indulged in her fondness more
corruptly than she, and in her fornication more than the fornication of her
sister.
23:12 She doted upon the sons of the Assyrian, princes and captains, her
neighbours, clothed with fine linen, horsemen riding on horses; [they were]
all choice young men.
23:13 And I saw that they were defiled, [that] the two [had] one way.
23:14 And she increased her fornication, and she saw men painted on the
wall, likenesses of the Chaldeans painted with a pencil,
23:15 having variegated girdles on their loins, having also richly dyed
[attire] upon their heads; all had a princely appearance, the likeness of
the children of the Chaldeans, of their native land.
23:16 And she doted upon them as soon as she saw them, and sent forth
messengers to them into the land of the Chaldeans.
23:17 And the sons of Babylon came to her, into the bed of rest, and they
defiled her in her fornication, and she was defiled by them, and her soul
was alienated from them.
23:18 And she exposed her fornication, and exposed her shame: and my soul
was alienated from her, even as my soul was alienated from her sister.
23:19 And thou didst multiply thy fornication, so as to call to remembrance
the days of thy youth, wherein thou didst commit whoredom in Egypt,
23:20 and thou didst dote upon the Chaldeans, whose flesh is as the flesh of
the asses, and their members [as] the members of horses.
23:21 And thou didst look upon the iniquity of thy youth, [the things] which
thou wroughtest in Egypt in thy lodgings, where were the breasts of thy
youth.
23:22 Therefore, Ooliba, thus saith the Lord; Behold, I [will] stir up thy
lovers against thee, from whom thy soul is alienated, and I will bring them
upon thee round about,
23:23 the children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, Phacuc, and Sue, and
Hychue, and all the sons of the Assyrians with them; choice young men,
governors and captains, all princes and renowned, riding on horses.
23:24 And they all shall come upon thee from the north, chariots and wheels,
with a multitude of nations, shields and targets; and [the enemy] shall set
a watch against thee round about: and I will set judgement before them, and
they shall take vengeance on thee with their judgements.
23:25 And I will bring upon thee my jealousy, and they shall deal with thee
in great wrath: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and shall cast
down thy remnant with the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters;
and thy remnant fire shall devour.
23:26 And they shall strip thee of thy raiment, and take [away] thine
ornaments.
23:27 So I will turn back thine ungodliness from thee, and thy fornication
from the land of Egypt: and thou shalt not lift up thine eyes upon them, and
shalt no more remember Egypt.
23:28 Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I [will] deliver thee into
the hands of those whom thou hatest, from whom thy soul is alienated.
23:29 And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take all [the
fruits] of thy labours and thy toils, and thou shalt be naked and bare: and
the shame of thy fornication shall be exposed: and thy ungodliness and thy
fornication
23:30 brought this upon thee, in that thou wentest a-whoring after the
nations, and didst defile thyself with their devices.
23:31 Thou didst walk in the way of thy sister; and I will put her cup into
thine hands.
23:32 Thus saith the Lord; Drink thy sister's cup, deep and large, and full,
to cause complete drunkenness.
23:33 And thou shalt be thoroughly weakened; and the cup of destruction, the
cup of thy sister Samaria,
23:34 drink thou it, and I will take away her feasts and her new moons: for
I have spoken [it], saith the Lord.
23:35 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Because thou has forgotten me, and cast
me behind thy back, therefore receive thou [the reward] of thine ungodliness
and thy fornication.
23:36 And the Lord said to me, Son of man wilt thou not judge Oola and
Ooliba? and declare to them their iniquities?
23:37 For they have committed adultery, and blood was in their hands, they
committed adultery with their devices, and they passed through the fire to
them their children which they bore to me.
23:38 So long too as they did these things to me, they defiled my sanctuary,
and profaned my sabbaths.
23:39 And when they sacrificed their children to their idols, they also went
into my sanctuary to profane it: and whereas they did thus in the midst of
my house;
23:40 and whereas they did thus to the men that came from afar, to whom they
sent messengers, and as soon as they came, immediately thou didst wash
thyself, and didst paint thine eyes and adorn thyself with ornaments,
23:41 and satest on a prepared bed, and before it [there was] a table set
out, and [as for] mine incense and mine oil, they rejoiced in them,
23:42 and they raised a sound of music, and [that] with men coming from the
wilderness out of a multitude of men, and they put bracelets on their hands,
and a crown of glory on their heads;
23:43 Therefore I said, Do they not commit adultery with these? and has she
also gone a-whoring [after] the manner of a harlot?
23:44 And they went in to her, as [men] go in to a harlot; so they went in
to Oola and to Ooliba to work iniquity.
23:45 And they are just men, and shall take vengeance on them with the
judgement of an adulteress and the judgement of blood: for they are
adulteresses, land blood is in their hands.
23:46 Thus saith the Lord God, Bring up a multitude upon them, and send
trouble and plunder into the midst of them.
23:47 And stone them with the stones of a multitude, and pierce them with
their swords: they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and shall burn
up their houses.
23:48 And I will remove ungodliness out of the land, and all the women shall
be instructed, and shall not do according to their ungodliness.
23:49 And your ungodliness shall be recompensed upon you, and ye shall bear
the guilt of your devices: and ye shall know that I am the Lord. |
23:1 The word of the LORD came again unto
me, saying,
23:2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
23:3 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.
23:4 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.
23:5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her
lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
23:6 Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them
desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
23:7 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.
23:8 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.
23:9 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the
hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
23:10 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.
23:11 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.
23:12 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers
clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable
young men.
23:13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
23:14 And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed
upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
23:15 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:
23:16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and
sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
23:17 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.
23:18 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.
23:19 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.
23:20 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of
asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
23:21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in
bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
23:22 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;
23:23 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.
23:24 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.
23:25 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.
23:26 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair
jewels.
23:27 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.
23:28 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:
23:29 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.
23:30 I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring
after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
23:31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her
cup into thine hand.
23:32 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.
23:33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of
astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
23:34 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.
23:35 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.
23:36 The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and
Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;
23:37 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.
23:38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary
in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
23:39 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.
23:40 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,
23:41 And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it,
whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.
23:42 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.
23:43 Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit
whoredoms with her, and she with them?
23:44 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.
23:45 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.
23:46 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and
will give them to be removed and spoiled.
23:47 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.
23:48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women
may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
23:49 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. |