Ezequiel 23
La Biblia de las Américas
Parábola de las dos hermanas
23 Y vino a mí la palabra del Señor, diciendo: 2 Hijo de hombre, había dos mujeres, hijas de una madre(A), 3 que se prostituyeron en Egipto(B); se prostituyeron en su juventud. Allí fueron palpados sus pechos y allí fueron acariciados sus senos virginales. 4 Sus nombres eran Aholá, la mayor, y Aholibá, su hermana. Vinieron a ser mías y dieron a luz hijos e hijas. Y en cuanto a sus nombres, Aholá es Samaria y Aholibá es Jerusalén.
5 Y Aholá se prostituyó cuando era mía[a]; y se apasionó de sus amantes, los asirios(C), vecinos suyos, 6 vestidos de púrpura, gobernadores y oficiales, todos ellos jóvenes apuestos, jinetes montados a caballo(D). 7 Cometió sus prostituciones con ellos, con lo más selecto de los asirios[b]; y con todos los que se había apasionado, con todos sus ídolos se contaminó(E). 8 Y no abandonó sus prostituciones de Egipto; pues con ella muchos en su juventud se habían acostado, y acariciaron sus senos virginales(F) y derramaron sobre ella su pasión[c]. 9 Por tanto, la entregué en manos de sus amantes, en mano de los asirios, de los que se había apasionado(G). 10 Ellos descubrieron su desnudez, se llevaron a sus hijos y a sus hijas, y a ella la mataron a espada. Y vino a ser ejemplo[d] para las mujeres, pues se ejecutaron juicios contra ella(H).
11 Y aunque su hermana Aholibá vio esto, se corrompió en su pasión[e] más que ella, y sus prostituciones fueron mayores que las prostituciones de su hermana(I). 12 Se apasionó de los asirios, gobernadores y oficiales(J), vecinos suyos, lujosamente vestidos, jinetes montados a caballo, todos ellos jóvenes apuestos. 13 Y vi que ella se había contaminado; un mismo camino seguían las dos. 14 Y aumentó sus prostituciones(K). Vio hombres pintados en la pared(L), figuras de caldeos pintadas con bermellón, 15 ceñidos sus lomos con cinturones y amplios turbantes en sus cabezas, con aspecto de oficiales todos ellos, semejantes a los babilonios[f] de Caldea, tierra de su nacimiento. 16 Cuando los vio[g] se apasionó de ellos(M) y les envió mensajeros a Caldea. 17 Y vinieron a ella los babilonios[h](N), al lecho de amores, y la contaminaron con sus prostituciones. Y después de haber sido contaminada con ellos, su alma se hastió de ellos. 18 Reveló sus prostituciones y descubrió su desnudez(O); entonces me hastié[i] de ella(P) como me[j] había hastiado de su hermana(Q). 19 Pero ella multiplicó sus prostituciones, recordando los días de su juventud, cuando se prostituía en la tierra de Egipto. 20 Y se apasionó de sus amantes, cuya carne es como la carne de los asnos y cuyo flujo es como el flujo de los caballos(R). 21 Añoraste así la lujuria de tu juventud, cuando los egipcios[k] palpaban tu seno, acariciando[l] los pechos de tu juventud(S).
22 Por tanto, Aholibá, así dice el Señor Dios[m]: «He aquí, incitaré contra ti a tus amantes, de los que te alejaste[n], y los traeré contra ti de todos lados: 23 los babilonios[o](T) y todos los caldeos(U), los de Pecod(V), Soa y Coa, y con ellos todos los asirios(W), jóvenes apuestos, todos ellos gobernadores y oficiales, capitanes y de renombre[p], todos montados a caballo. 24 Y vendrán contra ti con armas, carros y carretas[q], y con multitud de pueblos(X). Se apostarán contra ti de todos lados con coraza, escudo y yelmo; a ellos les encargaré el juicio y ellos te juzgarán conforme a sus costumbres(Y). 25 Pondré contra ti mi celo, y te tratarán con furor; te arrancarán la nariz y las orejas, y tus sobrevivientes caerán[r] a espada; te quitarán tus hijos y tus hijas, y los que queden serán consumidos por el fuego(Z). 26 También te despojarán de tus vestidos y te quitarán tus bellas joyas[s](AA). 27 Así pondré fin a tu lujuria y a tu prostitución(AB) traídas de la tierra de Egipto, y no levantarás más tus ojos hacia ellos ni recordarás más a Egipto». 28 Porque así dice el Señor Dios: «He aquí, yo te entregaré en manos de los que odias, en manos de aquellos de los que te alejaste[t](AC). 29 Ellos te tratarán con odio, te quitarán todas tus posesiones y te dejarán desnuda y descubierta(AD). Y será descubierta la vergüenza de tus prostituciones; tanto tu lujuria como tus prostituciones. 30 Estas cosas se harán contigo porque te has prostituido con las naciones, porque te has contaminado con sus ídolos(AE). 31 Has andado en el camino de tu hermana(AF); por eso yo te pondré su cáliz en tu mano». 32 Así dice el Señor Dios:
«Beberás el cáliz(AG) de tu hermana,
que es hondo y ancho;
servirá[u] de risa y de escarnio(AH)
porque es de gran capacidad.
33 De embriaguez y de dolor te llenarás.
El cáliz de horror y desolación(AI)
es el cáliz de tu hermana Samaria.
34 Lo beberás y lo agotarás(AJ);
roerás sus fragmentos,
y te desgarrarás los pechos.
Porque yo he hablado» —declara el Señor Dios. 35 Por tanto, así dice el Señor Dios: «Porque me has olvidado(AK) y me has arrojado a tus espaldas(AL), carga ahora con el castigo de tu lujuria y de tus prostituciones».
36 También me dijo el Señor: Hijo de hombre, ¿juzgarás a Aholá y a Aholibá? Hazles saber, pues, sus abominaciones(AM). 37 Porque han cometido adulterio y hay sangre en sus manos; han cometido adulterio con sus ídolos, y aun a sus hijos, que dieron a luz para mí, han hecho pasar por el fuego(AN) como alimento para los ídolos[v]. 38 Además me han hecho esto: han contaminado mi santuario(AO) en ese día y han profanado mis días de reposo(AP); 39 después de sacrificar sus hijos a sus ídolos, entraron en mi santuario el mismo día para profanarlo; y he aquí, así hicieron en medio de mi casa(AQ). 40 Aún más, mandaron[w] llamar a hombres que vinieran de lejos, a quienes se les envió un mensajero; y he aquí, vinieron. Para ellos te bañaste, te pintaste los ojos y te ataviaste con adornos(AR); 41 luego te sentaste en un suntuoso diván(AS) ante el cual estaba preparada una mesa(AT) en la que habías puesto mi incienso y mi aceite(AU). 42 Y el ruido de una multitud despreocupada(AV) se oía allí, multitud de hombres, bebedores(AW) traídos del desierto. Y pusieron brazaletes en las manos de las mujeres[x] y hermosas coronas sobre sus cabezas(AX). 43 Entonces dije acerca de aquella que estaba consumida por sus adulterios(AY): «¿Cometerán ahora fornicaciones con ella, estando ella así?[y]». 44 Y se llegaron a ella como quien se llega a una ramera. Así se llegaron a Aholá y a Aholibá, mujeres depravadas. 45 Pero los[z] hombres justos los[aa] juzgarán en el juicio de las adúlteras y en el juicio de las mujeres que derraman sangre(AZ), por ser ellas adúlteras y haber sangre en sus manos.
46 Porque así dice el Señor Dios: «Tráigase una multitud contra ellas, y sean entregadas al terror y al pillaje(BA). 47 Y la multitud las apedreará(BB) y las cortará con sus espadas; matará a sus hijos y a sus hijas y prenderán fuego a sus casas(BC). 48 Y haré cesar la lascivia[ab] de la tierra, y todas las mujeres serán advertidas y no cometerán lascivia[ac] como vosotras[ad]. 49 Y recaerá[ae] vuestra lascivia[af] sobre vosotras, y cargaréis el castigo de haber adorado a vuestros ídolos; así sabréis que yo soy el Señor Dios(BD)».
Footnotes
- Ezequiel 23:5 Lit., bajo mi dominio
- Ezequiel 23:7 Lit., hijos de Asur, y así en el resto del cap.
- Ezequiel 23:8 Lit., prostitución
- Ezequiel 23:10 Lit., nombre
- Ezequiel 23:11 Lit., prostitución
- Ezequiel 23:15 Lit., hijos de Babel
- Ezequiel 23:16 Lit., a la vista de sus ojos
- Ezequiel 23:17 Lit., hijos de Babel
- Ezequiel 23:18 Lit., mi alma se hastió
- Ezequiel 23:18 Lit., como mi alma se
- Ezequiel 23:21 Así en dos mss.; en el T.M., de Egipto
- Ezequiel 23:21 Así en algunas versiones antiguas; en el T.M., a causa de
- Ezequiel 23:22 Heb., YHWH, generalmente traducido Señor, y así en el resto del cap.
- Ezequiel 23:22 Lit., tu alma se alejó
- Ezequiel 23:23 Lit., hijos de Babel
- Ezequiel 23:23 Lit., los llamados
- Ezequiel 23:24 Lit., ruedas
- Ezequiel 23:25 Lit., tu resto caerá
- Ezequiel 23:26 Lit., tus artículos de belleza
- Ezequiel 23:28 Lit., tu alma se alejó
- Ezequiel 23:32 O, servirás
- Ezequiel 23:37 Lit., ellos
- Ezequiel 23:40 O, vosotras mandasteis
- Ezequiel 23:42 Lit., de ellas
- Ezequiel 23:43 O, Ahora cometerán fornicación con ella y ella con ellos
- Ezequiel 23:45 Lit., ellos
- Ezequiel 23:45 Algunos mss. dicen: las
- Ezequiel 23:48 O, lujuria
- Ezequiel 23:48 O, lujuria
- Ezequiel 23:48 Lit., y no harán conforme a vuestra lascivia
- Ezequiel 23:49 Lit., Y os darán
- Ezequiel 23:49 O, lujuria
Ezekiel 23
Authorized (King James) Version
23 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: 3 and they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity. 4 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, 6 which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. 7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself. 8 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her. 9 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted. 10 These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.
11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms. 12 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men. 13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way, 14 and that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, 15 girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity: 16 and as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. 17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them. 18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister. 19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. 20 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. 21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side; 23 the Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses. 24 And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments. 25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire. 26 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels. 27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
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.
Ezekiel 23
King James Version
23 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
4 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
6 Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
8 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
9 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
10 These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.
11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
12 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
14 And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
15 Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
20 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;
23 The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
24 And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.
25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.
26 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
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.
KJV reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press, the Crown’s patentee in the UK.