Ezekiel 23:29-49

English Standard Version

²⁹ and ^(A)they shall deal with you in hatred and take away all the fruit of your labor ^(B)and leave you naked and bare, and ^(C)the nakedness of your whoring shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your whoring ³⁰ have brought this upon you, because ^(D)you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols. ³¹ You have gone the way of your sister; ^(E)therefore I will give ^(F)her cup into your hand. ³² Thus says the Lord God:

for I have spoken, declares the Lord God. ³⁵ Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because ^(K)you have forgotten me and ^(L)cast me behind your back, you yourself ^(M)must bear the consequences of your lewdness and whoring.”

³⁶ The Lord said to me: ^(N)“Son of man, ^(O)will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations. ³⁷ For ^(P)they have committed adultery, ^(Q)and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even ^(R)offered up^[a] to them for food the children whom they had borne to me. ³⁸ Moreover, this they have done to me: ^(S)they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and ^(T)profaned my Sabbaths. ³⁹ For when ^(U)they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day ^(V)they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, ^(W)this is what they did in my house. ⁴⁰ They even sent for men to come from afar, ^(X)to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, ^(Y)painted your eyes, ^(Z)and adorned yourself with ornaments. ⁴¹ You sat on ^(AA)a stately couch, with a table spread before it ^(AB)on which you had placed my incense and ^(AC)my oil. ⁴² The ^(AD)sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and with men of the common sort, drunkards^[b] were brought from the wilderness; and they put ^(AE)bracelets on the hands of the women, and ^(AF)beautiful crowns on their heads.

⁴³ “Then I said of her who was worn out by adultery, ‘Now they will continue to use her for a whore, even her!’^{[c] 44} For they have gone in to her, as men go in to a prostitute. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, lewd women! ⁴⁵ But righteous men ^(AG)shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.”

⁴⁶ For thus says the Lord God: ^(AH)“Bring up a vast host against them, and make them ^(AI)an object of terror and ^(AJ)a plunder. ^47 (AK)And the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. ^(AL)They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and ^(AM)burn up their houses. ^48 (AN)Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done. ⁴⁹ And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and ^(AO)you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and ^(AP)you shall know that I am the Lord God.”