Ezekiel 23:36-49

English Standard Version

³⁶ The Lord said to me: ^(A)“Son of man, ^(B)will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations. ³⁷ For ^(C)they have committed adultery, ^(D)and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even ^(E)offered up^[a] to them for food the children whom they had borne to me. ³⁸ Moreover, this they have done to me: ^(F)they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and ^(G)profaned my Sabbaths. ³⁹ For when ^(H)they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day ^(I)they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, ^(J)this is what they did in my house. ⁴⁰ They even sent for men to come from afar, ^(K)to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, ^(L)painted your eyes, ^(M)and adorned yourself with ornaments. ⁴¹ You sat on ^(N)a stately couch, with a table spread before it ^(O)on which you had placed my incense and ^(P)my oil. ⁴² The ^(Q)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 ^(R)bracelets on the hands of the women, and ^(S)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 ^(T)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: ^(U)“Bring up a vast host against them, and make them ^(V)an object of terror and ^(W)a plunder. ^47 (X)And the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. ^(Y)They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and ^(Z)burn up their houses. ^48 (AA)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 ^(AB)you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and ^(AC)you shall know that I am the Lord God.”