¹ And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, `Son of man,

^{2 Ref} Two women were daughters of one mother,

^{3 Ref} 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.

^{4 Ref} 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.

^{5 Ref} And go a-whoring doth Aholah under Me, And she doteth on her lovers, On the neighbouring Assyrians,

^{6 Ref} Clothed with blue -- governors and prefects, Desirable young men all of them, Horsemen, riding on horses,

^{7 Ref} 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.

^{8 Ref} 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.

^{9 Ref} Therefore I have given her into the hand of her lovers, Into the hand of sons of Asshur on whom she doted.

^{10 Ref} 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.

^{11 Ref} 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.

^{12 Ref} 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.

^{13 Ref} And I see that she hath been defiled, One way `is' to them both.

^{14 Ref} And she doth add unto her whoredoms, And she seeth graved men on the wall, Pictures of Chaldeans, graved with red lead,

^{15 Ref} 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.

^{16 Ref} And she doteth on them at the sight of her eyes, And sendeth messengers to them, to Chaldea.

^{17 Ref} 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.

^{18 Ref} 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.

^{19 Ref} And she multiplieth her whoredoms, To remember the days of her youth, When she went a-whoring in the land of Egypt.

^{20 Ref} And she doteth on their paramours, Whose flesh `is' the flesh of asses, And the issue of horses -- their issue.

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.

^{22 Ref} 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.

^{23 Ref} 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.

^{24 Ref} 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.

^{25 Ref} 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.

^{26 Ref} And they have stripped thee of thy garments, And have taken thy beauteous jewels.

^{27 Ref} 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.

^{28 Ref} 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.

^{29 Ref} 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.

^{30 Ref} To do these things to thee, In thy going a-whoring after nations, Because thou hast been defiled with their idols,

^{31 Ref} In the way of thy sister thou hast walked, And I have given her cup into thy hand.

^{32 Ref} 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.

^{33 Ref} With drunkenness and sorrow thou art filled, A cup of astonishment and desolation, The cup of thy sister Samaria.

^{34 Ref} 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,

^{35 Ref} 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.'

^{36 Ref} And Jehovah saith unto me, `Son of man, Dost thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? Declare then to them their abominations.

^{37 Ref} 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.

^{38 Ref} Again, this they have done to Me, They defiled My sanctuary in that day, And My sabbaths they have polluted.

^{39 Ref} 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,

^{40 Ref} 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.

^{41 Ref} And thou hast sat on a couch of honour, And a table arrayed before it, And My perfume and My oil placed on it.

^{42 Ref} 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.

^{43 Ref} And I say of the worn-out one in adulteries, Now they commit her whoredoms -- she also!

^{44 Ref} 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.

^{45 Ref} 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.

^{46 Ref} For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Bring up against them an assembly, And give them to trembling and to spoiling.

^{47 Ref} 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.

^{48 Ref} 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.

^{49 Ref} 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!

¹ The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,

^{2 Ref} Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

^{3 Ref} and they played the prostitute in Egypt; they played the prostitute in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.

^{4 Ref} The names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.

^{5 Ref} Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors,

^{6 Ref} who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

^{7 Ref} She bestowed her prostitution on them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on whoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.

^{8 Ref} Neither has she left her prostitution 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 prostitution on her.

^{9 Ref} Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.

^{10 Ref} These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they killed with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.

^{11 Ref} Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her prostitution which were more than the prostitution of her sister.

^{12 Ref} She doted on the Assyrians, governors and rulers, [her] neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

^{13 Ref} I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way.

^{14 Ref} She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

^{15 Ref} girded with girdles on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them princes to look on, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

^{16 Ref} As soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

^{17 Ref} The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

^{18 Ref} So she uncovered her prostitution, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.

^{19 Ref} Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.

^{20 Ref} She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

²¹ Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the handling of your bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of your youth.

^{22 Ref} Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: 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:

^{23 Ref} 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 on horses.

^{24 Ref} 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.

^{25 Ref} 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.

^{26 Ref} They shall also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels.

^{27 Ref} Thus will I make your lewdness to cease from you, and your prostitution [brought] from the land of Egypt; so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.

^{28 Ref} For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom your soul is alienated;

^{29 Ref} 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 prostitution shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.

^{30 Ref} These things shall be done to you, because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols.

^{31 Ref} You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I give her cup into your hand.

^{32 Ref} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You shall drink of your sister's cup, which is deep and large; you shall ridiculed and had in derision; it contains much.

^{33 Ref} You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.

^{34 Ref} You shall even drink it and drain it out, and you shall gnaw the broken pieces of it, and shall tear your breasts; for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.

^{35 Ref} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore bear you also your lewdness and your prostitution.

^{36 Ref} Yahweh said moreover to me: Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? then declare to them their abominations.

^{37 Ref} 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 bore to me, to pass through [the fire] to them to be devoured.

^{38 Ref} Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

^{39 Ref} 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.

^{40 Ref} Furthermore you have sent for men who 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,

^{41 Ref} and sit on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you did set my incense and my oil.

^{42 Ref} 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 on the hands of them [twain], and beautiful crowns on their heads.

^{43 Ref} Then said I of her who was old in adulteries, Now will they play the prostitute with her, and she [with them].

^{44 Ref} They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute: so went they in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.

^{45 Ref} Righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

^{46 Ref} For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.

^{47 Ref} The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

^{48 Ref} Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

^{49 Ref} They shall recompense your lewdness on you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols; and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.

¹ The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

^{2 Ref} Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother:

^{3 Ref} They were acting like loose women in Egypt; when they were young their behaviour was loose: there their breasts were crushed, even the points of their young breasts were crushed.

^{4 Ref} Their names were Oholah, the older, and Oholibah, her sister: and they became mine, and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem, Oholibah.

^{5 Ref} And Oholah was untrue to me when she was mine; she was full of desire for her lovers, even for the Assyrians, her neighbours,

^{6 Ref} Who were clothed in blue, captains and rulers, all of them young men to be desired, horsemen seated on horses.

^{7 Ref} And she gave her unclean love to them, all of them the noblest men of Assyria: and she made herself unclean with the images of all who were desired by her.

^{8 Ref} And she has not given up her loose ways from the time when she was in Egypt; for when she was young they were her lovers, and by them her young breasts were crushed, and they let loose on her their unclean desire.

^{9 Ref} For this cause I gave her up into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians on whom her desire was fixed.

^{10 Ref} By these her shame was uncovered: they took her sons and daughters and put her to death with the sword: and she became a cause of wonder to women; for they gave her the punishment which was right.

^{11 Ref} And her sister Oholibah saw this, but her desire was even more unmeasured, and her loose behaviour was worse than that of her sister.

^{12 Ref} She was full of desire for the Assyrians, captains and rulers, her neighbours, clothed in blue, horsemen going on horses, all of them young men to be desired.

^{13 Ref} And I saw that she had become unclean; the two of them went the same way.

^{14 Ref} And her loose behaviour became worse; for she saw men pictured on a wall, pictures of the Chaldaeans painted in bright red,

^{15 Ref} With bands round their bodies and with head-dresses hanging round their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the Babylonians, the land of whose birth is Chaldaea.

^{16 Ref} And when she saw them she was full of desire for them, and sent servants to them in Chaldaea.

^{17 Ref} And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and made her unclean with their loose desire, and she became unclean with them, and her soul was turned from them.

^{18 Ref} So her loose behaviour was clearly seen and her shame uncovered: then my soul was turned from her as it had been turned from her sister.

^{19 Ref} But still she went on the more with her loose behaviour, keeping in mind the early days when she had been a loose woman in the land of Egypt.

^{20 Ref} And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is like the seed of horses.

²¹ And she made the memory of the loose ways of her early years come back to mind, when her young breasts were crushed by the Egyptians.

^{22 Ref} For this cause, O Oholibah, this is what the Lord has said: See, I will make your lovers come up against you, even those from whom your soul is turned away in disgust; and I will make them come up against you on every side;

^{23 Ref} The Babylonians and all the Chaldaeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: young men to be desired, captains and rulers all of them, and chiefs, her neighbours, all of them on horseback.

^{24 Ref} And they will come against you from the north on horseback, with war-carriages and a great band of peoples; they will put themselves in order against you with breastplate and body-cover and metal head-dress round about you: and I will make them your judges, and they will give their decision against you as seems right to them.

^{25 Ref} And my bitter feeling will be working against you, and they will take you in hand with passion; they will take away your nose and your ears, and the rest of you will be put to the sword: they will take your sons and daughters, and the rest of you will be burned up in the fire.

^{26 Ref} And they will take all your clothing off you and take away your ornaments.

^{27 Ref} So I will put an end to your evil ways and your loose behaviour which came from the land of Egypt: and your eyes will never be lifted up to them again, and you will have no more memory of Egypt.

^{28 Ref} For this is what the Lord has said: See, I will give you up into the hands of those who are hated by you, into the hands of those from whom your soul is turned away in disgust:

^{29 Ref} And they will take you in hand with hate, and take away all the fruit of your work, and let you be unveiled and without clothing: and the shame of your loose behaviour will be uncovered, your evil designs and your loose ways.

^{30 Ref} They will do these things to you because you have been untrue to me, and have gone after the nations, and have become unclean with their images.

^{31 Ref} You have gone in the way of your sister; and I will give her cup into your hand.

^{32 Ref} This is what the Lord has said: You will take a drink from your sister's cup, which is deep and wide: you will be laughed at and looked down on, more than you are able to undergo.

^{33 Ref} You will be broken and full of sorrow, with the cup of wonder and destruction, with the cup of your sister Samaria.

^{34 Ref} And after drinking it and draining it out, you will take the last drops of it to the end, pulling off your breasts: for I have said it, says the Lord.

^{35 Ref} So this is what the Lord has said: Because you have not kept me in your memory, and because your back has been turned to me, you will even undergo the punishment of your evil designs and your loose ways.

^{36 Ref} Then the Lord said to me: Son of man, will you be the judge of Oholibah? then make clear to her the disgusting things she has done.

^{37 Ref} For she has been false to me, and blood is on her hands, and with her images she has been untrue; and more than this, she made her sons, whom she had by me, go through the fire to them to be burned up.

^{38 Ref} Further, this is what she has done to me: she has made my holy place unclean and has made my Sabbaths unclean.

^{39 Ref} For when she had made an offering of her children to her images, she came into my holy place to make it unclean; see, this is what she has done inside my house.

^{40 Ref} And she even sent for men to come from far away, to whom a servant was sent, and they came: for whom she was washing her body and painting her eyes and making herself fair with ornaments.

^{41 Ref} And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put ready before it on which she put my perfume and my oil.

^{42 Ref} ... and they put jewels on her hands and beautiful crowns on her head.

^{43 Ref} Then I said ... now she will go on with her loose ways.

^{44 Ref} And they went in to her, as men go to a loose woman: so they went in to Oholibah, the loose woman.

^{45 Ref} And upright men will be her judges, judging her as false wives and women who take lives are judged; because she has been untrue to me and blood is on her hands.

^{46 Ref} For this is what the Lord has said: I will make a great meeting of the people come together against her, and will send on her shaking fear and take everything from her.

^{47 Ref} And the meeting, after stoning her with stones, will put an end to her with their swords; they will put her sons and daughters to death and have her house burned up with fire.

^{48 Ref} And I will put an end to evil in all the land, teaching all women not to do as you have done.

^{49 Ref} And I will send on you the punishment of your evil ways, and you will be rewarded for your sins with your images: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.