Ezekiel Chapter 23

• Ezekiel 23:1
  Ezekiel.
• Ezekiel 23:2
  The LORD’s word came again to me, saying,
• Ezekiel 23:3
  “Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.
• Ezekiel 23:4
  They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their youthful nipples were care...
• Ezekiel 23:5
  Their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah,...
• Ezekiel 23:6
  “Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,
• Ezekiel 23:7
  who were clothed with blue—governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
• Ezekiel 23:8
  She gave herself as a prostitute to them, all of them the choicest men of Assyria. She defiled herself with the idols of whomever she lusted after.
• Ezekiel 23:9
  She hasn’t left her prostitution since leaving Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her. They caressed her youthful nipples and they poured out their...
• Ezekiel 23:10
  “Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians on whom she doted.
• Ezekiel 23:11
  These uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters, and they killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women; for they exe...
• Ezekiel 23:12
  “Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lusting than she, and in her prostitution which was more depraved than the prostitution...
• Ezekiel 23:13
  She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers—her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young me...
• Ezekiel 23:14
  I saw that she was defiled. They both went the same way.
• Ezekiel 23:15
  “She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with red,
• Ezekiel 23:16
  dressed with belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like princes, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Ch...
• Ezekiel 23:17
  As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
• Ezekiel 23:18
  The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution. She was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated...
• Ezekiel 23:19
  So she uncovered her prostitution and uncovered her nakedness. Then my soul was alienated from her, just like my soul was alienated from her sister.
• Ezekiel 23:20
  Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.
• Ezekiel 23:21
  She lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
• Ezekiel 23:22
  Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the caressing of your nipples by the Egyptians because of your youthful breasts.
• Ezekiel 23:23
  “Therefore, Oholibah, the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them aga...
• Ezekiel 23:24
  the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; all of them desirable young men, governors and rulers, princ...
• Ezekiel 23:25
  They will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples. They will set themselves against you with buckler, shiel...
• Ezekiel 23:26
  I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will take away your nose and your ears. Your remnant will fall by the sw...
• Ezekiel 23:27
  They will also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels.
• Ezekiel 23:28
  Thus I will make your lewdness to cease from you, and remove your prostitution from the land of Egypt, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them,...
• Ezekiel 23:29
  “For the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom your soul is alienated.
• Ezekiel 23:30
  They will deal with you in hatred, and will take away all your labor, and will leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your prostitution will be un...
• Ezekiel 23:31
  These things will be done to you because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols.
• Ezekiel 23:32
  You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.’
• Ezekiel 23:33
  “The Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink of your sister’s cup, which is deep and large. You will be ridiculed and held in derision. It contains much.
• Ezekiel 23:34
  You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.
• Ezekiel 23:35
  You will even drink it and drain it out. You will gnaw the broken pieces of it, and will tear your breasts; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord GOD.
• Ezekiel 23:36
  “Therefore the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution...
• Ezekiel 23:37
  The LORD said moreover to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.
• Ezekiel 23:38
  For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have also caused their sons, whom t...
• Ezekiel 23:39
  Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
• Ezekiel 23:40
  For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, they have done this in...
• Ezekiel 23:41
  “Furthermore you sisters have sent for men who come from far away, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you washed yourself, ...
• Ezekiel 23:42
  and sat on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my oil.
• Ezekiel 23:43
  “The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. With men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets o...
• Ezekiel 23:44
  Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, ‘Now they will play the prostitute with her, and she with them.’
• Ezekiel 23:45
  They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.
• Ezekiel 23:46
  Righteous men will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and bloo...
• Ezekiel 23:47
  “For the Lord GOD says: ‘I will bring up a mob against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.
• Ezekiel 23:48
  The company will stone them with stones and dispatch them with their swords. They will kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses w...
• Ezekiel 23:49
  “‘Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to be lewd like you.
• Ezekiel 23:50
  They will recompense your lewdness on you, and you will bear the sins of your idols. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’”