Ezekiel 23

New King James Version

Two Harlot Sisters

23 The word of the Lord came again to me, saying:

²“Son of man, there were ^(A)two women,
The daughters of one mother.
³^(B)They committed harlotry in Egypt,
They committed harlotry in ^(C)their youth;
Their breasts were there embraced,
Their virgin bosom was there pressed.
⁴Their names: ^[a]Oholah the elder and ^[b]Oholibah ^(D)her sister;
^(E)They were Mine,
And they bore sons and daughters.
As for their names,
Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem is Oholibah.

The Older Sister, Samaria

⁵“Oholah played the harlot even though she was Mine;
And she lusted for her lovers, the neighboring ^(F)Assyrians,
⁶Who were clothed in purple,
Captains and rulers,
All of them desirable young men,
Horsemen riding on horses.
⁷Thus she committed her harlotry with them,
All of them choice men of Assyria;
And with all for whom she lusted,
With all their idols, she defiled herself.
⁸She has never given up her harlotry brought ^(G)from Egypt,
For in her youth they had lain with her,
Pressed her virgin bosom,
And poured out their immorality upon her.

⁹“Therefore I have delivered her
Into the hand of her lovers,
Into the hand of the ^(H)Assyrians,
For whom she lusted.
¹⁰They uncovered her nakedness,
Took away her sons and daughters,
And slew her with the sword;
She became a byword among women,
For they had executed judgment on her.

The Younger Sister, Jerusalem

¹¹“Now ^(I)although her sister Oholibah saw this, ^(J)she became more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her harlotry more corrupt than her sister’s harlotry.

¹²“She lusted for the neighboring ^(K)Assyrians,
^(L)Captains and rulers,
Clothed most gorgeously,
Horsemen riding on horses,
All of them desirable young men.
¹³Then I saw that she was defiled;
Both took the same way.
¹⁴But she increased her harlotry;
She looked at men portrayed on the wall,
Images of ^(M)Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,
¹⁵Girded with belts around their waists,
Flowing turbans on their heads,
All of them looking like captains,
In the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea,
The land of their nativity.
¹⁶^(N)As soon as her eyes saw them,
She lusted for them
And sent ^(O)messengers to them in Chaldea.

¹⁷“Then the ^[c]Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love,
And they defiled her with their immorality;
So she was defiled by them, ^(P)and alienated herself from them.
¹⁸She revealed her harlotry and uncovered her nakedness.
Then ^(Q)I ^(R)alienated Myself from her,
As I had alienated Myself from her sister.

¹⁹“Yet she multiplied her harlotry
In calling to remembrance the days of her youth,
^(S)When she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
²⁰For she lusted for her ^[d]paramours,
Whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys,
And whose issue is like the issue of horses.
²¹Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth,
When the ^(T)Egyptians pressed your bosom
Because of your youthful breasts.

Judgment on Jerusalem

²²“Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord God:

^(U)‘Behold, I will stir up your lovers against you,
From whom you have alienated yourself,
And I will bring them against you from every side:
²³The Babylonians,
All the Chaldeans,
^(V)Pekod, Shoa, Koa,
^(W)All the Assyrians with them,
All of them desirable young men,
Governors and rulers,
Captains and men of renown,
All of them riding on horses.
²⁴And they shall come against you
With chariots, wagons, and war-horses,
With a horde of people.
They shall array against you
Buckler, shield, and helmet all around.

‘I will delegate judgment to them,
And they shall judge you according to their judgments.
²⁵I will set My ^(X)jealousy against you,
And they shall deal furiously with you;
They shall remove your nose and your ears,
And your remnant shall fall by the sword;
They shall take your sons and your daughters,
And your remnant shall be devoured by fire.
²⁶^(Y)They shall also strip you of your clothes
And take away your beautiful jewelry.

²⁷‘Thus ^(Z)I will make you cease your lewdness and your ^(AA)harlotry
Brought from the land of Egypt,
So that you will not lift your eyes to them,
Nor remember Egypt anymore.’

²⁸“For thus says the Lord God: ‘Surely I will deliver you into the hand of ^(AB)those you hate, into the hand of those ^(AC)from whom you alienated yourself. ²⁹^(AD)They will deal hatefully with you, take away all you have worked for, and ^(AE)leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your harlotry shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your harlotry. ³⁰I will do these things to you because you have ^(AF)gone as a harlot after the Gentiles, because you have become defiled by their idols. ³¹You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will put her ^(AG)cup in your hand.’

³²“Thus says the Lord God:

‘You shall drink of your sister’s cup,
The deep and wide one;
^(AH)You shall be laughed to scorn
And held in derision;
It contains much.
³³You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,
The cup of horror and desolation,
The cup of your sister Samaria.
³⁴You shall ^(AI)drink and drain it,
You shall break its ^[e]shards,
And tear at your own breasts;
For I have spoken,’
Says the Lord God.

³⁵“Therefore thus says the Lord God:

‘Because you ^(AJ)have forgotten Me and ^(AK)cast Me behind your back,
Therefore you shall bear the penalty
Of your lewdness and your harlotry.’ ”

Both Sisters Judged

³⁶The Lord also said to me: “Son of man, will you ^(AL)judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then ^(AM)declare to them their abominations. ³⁷For they have committed adultery, and ^(AN)blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and even sacrificed their sons ^(AO)whom they bore to Me, passing them through the fire, to devour them. ³⁸Moreover they have done this to Me: They have ^(AP)defiled My sanctuary on the same day and ^(AQ)profaned My Sabbaths. ³⁹For after they had slain their children for their idols, on the same day they came into My sanctuary to profane it; and indeed ^(AR)thus they have done in the midst of My house.

⁴⁰“Furthermore you sent for men to come from afar, ^(AS)to whom a messenger was sent; and there they came. And you ^(AT)washed yourself for them, ^(AU)painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments. ⁴¹You sat on a stately ^(AV)couch, with a table prepared before it, ^(AW)on which you had set My incense and My oil. ⁴²The sound of a carefree multitude was with her, and ^[f]Sabeans were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort, who put bracelets on their ^[g]wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads. ⁴³Then I said concerning her who had grown old in adulteries, ‘Will they commit harlotry with her now, and she with them?’ ⁴⁴Yet they went in to her, as men go in to a woman who plays the harlot; thus they went in to Oholah and Oholibah, the lewd women. ⁴⁵But righteous men will ^(AX)judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and ^(AY)blood is on their hands.

⁴⁶“For thus says the Lord God: ^(AZ)‘Bring up an assembly against them, give them up to trouble and plunder. ⁴⁷^(BA)The assembly shall stone them with stones and ^[h]execute them with their swords; ^(BB)they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn their houses with fire. ⁴⁸Thus ^(BC)I will cause lewdness to cease from the land, ^(BD)that all women may be taught not to practice your lewdness. ⁴⁹They shall repay you for your lewdness, and you shall ^(BE)pay for your idolatrous sins. ^(BF)Then you shall know that I am the Lord God.’ ”

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Notas al pie

Ezekiel 23:4 Lit. Her Own Tabernacle
Ezekiel 23:4 Lit. My Tabernacle Is in Her
Ezekiel 23:17 Lit. sons of Babel
Ezekiel 23:20 Illicit lovers
Ezekiel 23:34 Earthenware fragments
Ezekiel 23:42 Or drunkards
Ezekiel 23:42 Lit. hands
Ezekiel 23:47 Lit. cut down

Hebrews 10:18-39

New King James Version

¹⁸Now where there is ^[a]remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

Hold Fast Your Confession

¹⁹Therefore, brethren, having ^(A)boldness^[b] to enter ^(B)the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰by a new and ^(C)living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, ²¹and having a High Priest over the house of God, ²²let us ^(D)draw near with a true heart ^(E)in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. ²³Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for ^(F)He who promised is faithful. ²⁴And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, ²⁵^(G)not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and ^(H)so much the more as you see ^(I)the Day approaching.

The Just Live by Faith

²⁶For ^(J)if we sin willfully ^(K)after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there ^(L)no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, ²⁷but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and ^(M)fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. ²⁸Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three ^(N)witnesses. ²⁹^(O)Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, ^(P)counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, ^(Q)and insulted the Spirit of grace? ³⁰For we know Him who said, ^(R)“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” ^[c]says the Lord. And again, ^(S)“The Lord will judge His people.” ³¹^(T)It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

³²But ^(U)recall the former days in which, after you were ^[d]illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: ³³partly while you were made ^(V)a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while ^(W)you became companions of those who were so treated; ³⁴for you had compassion on ^[e]me ^(X)in my chains, and ^(Y)joyfully accepted the plundering of your ^[f]goods, knowing that ^(Z)you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves ^[g]in heaven. ³⁵Therefore do not cast away your confidence, ^(AA)which has great reward. ³⁶^(AB)For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, ^(AC)you may receive the promise:

³⁷“For ^(AD)yet a little while,
And ^(AE)He^[h] who is coming will come and will not ^[i]tarry.
³⁸Now ^(AF)the^[j] just shall live by faith;
But if anyone draws back,
My soul has no pleasure in him.”

³⁹But we are not of those ^(AG)who draw back to ^[k]perdition, but of those who ^(AH)believe to the saving of the soul.

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Notas al pie

Hebrews 10:18 forgiveness
Hebrews 10:19 confidence
Hebrews 10:30 NU omits says the Lord
Hebrews 10:32 enlightened
Hebrews 10:34 NU the prisoners instead of me in my chains
Hebrews 10:34 possessions
Hebrews 10:34 NU omits in heaven
Hebrews 10:37 Or that which
Hebrews 10:37 delay
Hebrews 10:38 NU My just one
Hebrews 10:39 destruction

Psalm 109

New King James Version

Plea for Judgment of False Accusers

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

109 Do^(A) not keep silent,
O God of my praise!
²For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful
Have opened against me;
They have spoken against me with a ^(B)lying tongue.
³They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,
And fought against me ^(C)without a cause.
⁴In return for my love they are my accusers,
But I give myself to prayer.
⁵Thus ^(D)they have rewarded me evil for good,
And hatred for my love.

⁶Set a wicked man over him,
And let ^(E)an ^[a]accuser stand at his right hand.
⁷When he is judged, let him be found guilty,
And ^(F)let his prayer become sin.
⁸Let his days be ^(G)few,
And ^(H)let another take his office.
⁹^(I)Let his children be fatherless,
And his wife a widow.
¹⁰Let his children ^[b]continually be vagabonds, and beg;
Let them ^[c]seek their bread also from their desolate places.
¹¹^(J)Let the creditor seize all that he has,
And let strangers plunder his labor.
¹²Let there be none to extend mercy to him,
Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
¹³^(K)Let his ^[d]posterity be cut off,
And in the generation following let their ^(L)name be blotted out.

¹⁴^(M)Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord,
And let not the sin of his mother ^(N)be blotted out.
¹⁵Let them be continually before the Lord,
That He may ^(O)cut off the memory of them from the earth;
¹⁶Because he did not remember to show mercy,
But persecuted the poor and needy man,
That he might even slay the ^(P)broken in heart.
¹⁷^(Q)As he loved cursing, so let it come to him;
As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.
¹⁸As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,
So let it ^(R)enter his body like water,
And like oil into his bones.
¹⁹Let it be to him like the garment which covers him,
And for a belt with which he girds himself continually.
²⁰Let this be the Lord’s reward to my accusers,
And to those who speak evil against my person.

²¹But You, O God the Lord,
Deal with me for Your name’s sake;
Because Your mercy is good, deliver me.
²²For I am poor and needy,
And my heart is wounded within me.
²³I am gone ^(S)like a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off like a locust.
²⁴My ^(T)knees are weak through fasting,
And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.
²⁵I also have become ^(U)a reproach to them;
When they look at me, ^(V)they shake their heads.

²⁶Help me, O Lord my God!
Oh, save me according to Your mercy,
²⁷^(W)That they may know that this is Your hand—
That You, Lord, have done it!
²⁸^(X)Let them curse, but You bless;
When they arise, let them be ashamed,
But let ^(Y)Your servant rejoice.
²⁹^(Z)Let my accusers be clothed with shame,
And let them cover themselves with their own disgrace as with a mantle.

³⁰I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth;
Yes, ^(AA)I will praise Him among the multitude.
³¹For ^(AB)He shall stand at the right hand of the poor,
To save him from those ^[e]who condemn him.