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Ezekiel 23:28-49
New International Version
Ezekiel 23:28-49
New International Version
28 “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to deliver you into the hands(A) of those you hate, to those you turned away from in disgust. 29 They will deal with you in hatred and take away everything you have worked for. They will leave you stark naked,(B) and the shame of your prostitution will be exposed.(C) Your lewdness(D) and promiscuity(E) 30 have brought this on you, because you lusted after the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.(F) 31 You have gone the way of your sister; so I will put her cup(G) into your hand.(H)
32 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
“You will drink your sister’s cup,
a cup large and deep;
it will bring scorn and derision,(I)
for it holds so much.(J)
33 You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,
the cup of ruin and desolation,
the cup of your sister Samaria.(K)
34 You will drink it(L) and drain it dry
and chew on its pieces—
and you will tear your breasts.
I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.(M)
35 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Since you have forgotten(N) me and turned your back on me,(O) you must bear(P) the consequences of your lewdness and prostitution.”
36 The Lord said to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then confront(Q) them with their detestable practices,(R) 37 for they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, as food for them.(S) 38 They have also done this to me: At that same time they defiled my sanctuary(T) and desecrated my Sabbaths.(U) 39 On the very day they sacrificed their children to their idols, they entered my sanctuary and desecrated(V) it. That is what they did in my house.(W)
40 “They even sent messengers for men who came from far away,(X) and when they arrived you bathed yourself for them, applied eye makeup(Y) and put on your jewelry.(Z) 41 You sat on an elegant couch,(AA) with a table(AB) spread before it on which you had placed the incense(AC) and olive oil that belonged to me.(AD)
42 “The noise of a carefree(AE) crowd was around her; drunkards(AF) were brought from the desert along with men from the rabble, and they put bracelets(AG) on the wrists of the woman and her sister and beautiful crowns on their heads.(AH) 43 Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, ‘Now let them use her as a prostitute,(AI) for that is all she is.’ 44 And they slept with her. As men sleep with a prostitute, so they slept with those lewd women, Oholah and Oholibah. 45 But righteous judges will sentence them to the punishment of women who commit adultery and shed blood,(AJ) because they are adulterous and blood is on their hands.(AK)
46 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Bring a mob(AL) against them and give them over to terror and plunder.(AM) 47 The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters(AN) and burn(AO) down their houses.(AP)
48 “So I will put an end(AQ) to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not imitate you.(AR) 49 You will suffer the penalty for your lewdness and bear the consequences of your sins of idolatry.(AS) Then you will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.(AT)”
Ezekiel 23:28-49
King James Version
Ezekiel 23:28-49
King James Version
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:
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.
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.
31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.
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.
33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
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.
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.
36 The Lord said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;
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.
38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
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.
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,
41 And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.
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.
43 Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?
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.
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.
46 For thus saith the Lord God; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.
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.
48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
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.
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