^19 (A)Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced.

³ but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. ^(A)He even burned his son as an offering,^{[a] (B)}according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.

^22 (A)And Judah did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and they ^(B)provoked him to jealousy with their sins that they committed, more than all that their fathers had done. ²³ For they also built for themselves ^(C)high places ^(D)and pillars and ^(E)Asherim on every high hill and ^(F)under every green tree,

^51 (A)Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and ^(B)have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed. ^52 (C)Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.

⁸ She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, ^(A)I had sent her away with ^(B)a decree of divorce. ^(C)Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went ^(D)and played the whore. ⁹ Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with ^(E)stone and tree. ¹⁰ Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me ^(F)with her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the Lord.”

¹¹ And the Lord said to me, ^(G)“Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

^13 (A)but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel and have enticed Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem ^(B)into whoredom, ^(C)as the house of Ahab led Israel into whoredom, and also you ^(D)have killed your brothers, of your father's house, who were better than you,

¹¹ Moreover, he made high places in the hill country of Judah and led the inhabitants of Jerusalem ^(A)into whoredom and made Judah go astray.

⁴ Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. ^(A)They became mine, and they ^(B)bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is ^(C)Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

⁵ “Oholah played the whore ^(D)while she was mine, and ^(E)she lusted after her lovers ^(F)the Assyrians, warriors ⁶ clothed in purple, ^(G)governors and commanders, ^(H)all of them desirable young men, ^(I)horsemen riding on horses. ⁷ She bestowed her whoring upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone after whom she lusted. ⁸ She did not give up her whoring ^(J)that she had begun in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their whoring lust upon her. ⁹ Therefore ^(K)I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted. ^10 (L)These uncovered her nakedness; ^(M)they seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became ^(N)a byword among women, ^(O)when judgment had been executed on her.

^11 (P)“Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became ^(Q)more corrupt than her sister^[a] in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister. ¹² She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, ^(R)all of them desirable young men. ¹³ And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way.

² “And you, ^(A)son of man, ^(B)will you judge, will you judge ^(C)the bloody city? ^(D)Then declare to her all her abominations. ³ You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that ^(E)her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself! ⁴ You have become guilty ^(F)by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought ^(G)your days near, the appointed time of^[a] your years has come. ^(H)Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries. ⁵ Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you; ^(I)your name is defiled; ^(J)you are full of tumult.

⁶ “Behold, ^(K)the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood. ⁷ Father and mother ^(L)are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner ^(M)suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow ^(N)are wronged in you. ^8 (O)You have despised my holy things and ^(P)profaned my Sabbaths. ^9 (Q)There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you ^(R)who eat on the mountains; ^(S)they commit lewdness in your midst. ¹⁰ In you ^(T)men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity. ^11 (U)One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; ^(V)another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; ^(W)another in you violates his sister, his father's daughter. ¹² In you ^(X)they take bribes to shed blood; ^(Y)you take interest and profit^[b] and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but ^(Z)me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.

¹³ “Behold, ^(AA)I strike my hand at ^(AB)the dishonest gain that you have made, and at ^(AC)the blood that has been in your midst. ^14 (AD)Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? ^(AE)I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it. ^15 (AF)I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and ^(AG)I will consume your uncleanness out of you. ¹⁶ And ^(AH)you shall be profaned by your own doing ^(AI)in the sight of the nations, ^(AJ)and you shall know that I am the Lord.”