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Oholah and Oholibah
The word of the Lord came to me:
The word of the Lord came to me:
The Adultery of Two Sisters
This message came to me from the LORD:
This message came to me from the LORD:
“Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.
“Son of man, once there were two sisters who were daughters of the same mother.
They became prostitutes in Egypt. Even as young girls, they allowed men to fondle their breasts.
Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
The older girl was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. I married them, and they bore me sons and daughters. I am speaking of Samaria and Jerusalem, for Oholah is Samaria and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
“Oholah played the whore while she was mine, and she lusted after her lovers the Assyrians, warriors
“Then Oholah lusted after other lovers instead of me, and she gave her love to the Assyrian officers.
clothed in purple, governors and commanders, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
They were all attractive young men, captains and commanders dressed in handsome blue, charioteers driving their horses.
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.
She did not give up her whoring 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.
For when she left Egypt, she did not leave her spirit of prostitution behind. She was still as lewd as in her youth, when the Egyptians slept with her, fondled her breasts, and used her as a prostitute.
Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted.
“And so I handed her over to her Assyrian lovers, whom she desired so much.
These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became a byword among women, when judgment had been executed on her.
They stripped her, took away her children as their slaves, and then killed her. After she received her punishment, her reputation was known to every woman in the land.
“Yet even though Oholibah saw what had happened to Oholah, her sister, she followed right in her footsteps. And she was even more depraved, abandoning herself to her lust and prostitution.
She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
She fawned over all the Assyrian officers — those captains and commanders in handsome uniforms, those charioteers driving their horses — all of them attractive young men.
And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way.
I saw the way she was going, defiling herself just like her older sister.
But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,
wearing belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, a likeness of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea.
When she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
When she saw these paintings, she longed to give herself to them, so she sent messengers to Babylonia to invite them to come to her.
And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, she turned from them in disgust.
So they came and committed adultery with her, defiling her in the bed of love. After being defiled, however, she rejected them in disgust.
When she carried on her whoring so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister.
“In the same way, I became disgusted with Oholibah and rejected her, just as I had rejected her sister, because she flaunted herself before them and gave herself to satisfy their lusts.
Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt
Yet she turned to even greater prostitution, remembering her youth when she was a prostitute in Egypt.
and lusted after her lovers there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses.
She lusted after lovers with genitals as large as a donkey’s and emissions like those of a horse.
And so, Oholibah, you relived your former days as a young girl in Egypt, when you first allowed your breasts to be fondled.
Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I will stir up against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side:
The LORD’s Judgment of Oholibah
“Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will send your lovers against you from every direction — those very nations from which you turned away in disgust.
the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and commanders all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.
For the Babylonians will come with all the Chaldeans from Pekod and Shoa and Koa. And all the Assyrians will come with them — handsome young captains, commanders, chariot officers, and other high-ranking officers, all riding their horses.
And I will direct my jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire.
I will turn my jealous anger against you, and they will deal harshly with you. They will cut off your nose and ears, and any survivors will then be slaughtered by the sword. Your children will be taken away as captives, and everything that is left will be burned.
They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels.
They will strip you of your beautiful clothes and jewels.
Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your whoring begun in the land of Egypt, so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.
In this way, I will put a stop to the lewdness and prostitution you brought from Egypt. You will never again cast longing eyes on those things or fondly remember your time in Egypt.
“For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, into the hands of those from whom you turned in disgust,
“For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will surely hand you over to your enemies, to those you loathe, those you rejected.
and they shall deal with you in hatred and take away all the fruit of your labor and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your whoring shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your whoring
They will treat you with hatred and rob you of all you own, leaving you stark naked. The shame of your prostitution will be exposed to all the world.
have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
You brought all this on yourself by prostituting yourself to other nations, defiling yourself with all their idols.
You have gone the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.
Because you have followed in your sister’s footsteps, I will force you to drink the same cup of terror she drank.
Thus says the Lord God:
“You shall drink your sister’s cup
that is deep and large;
you shall be laughed at and held in derision,
for it contains much;
“You shall drink your sister’s cup
that is deep and large;
you shall be laughed at and held in derision,
for it contains much;
“Yes, this is what the Sovereign LORD says:
“You will drink from your sister’s cup of terror,
a cup that is large and deep.
It is filled to the brim
with scorn and derision.
“You will drink from your sister’s cup of terror,
a cup that is large and deep.
It is filled to the brim
with scorn and derision.
you will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow.
A cup of horror and desolation,
the cup of your sister Samaria;
A cup of horror and desolation,
the cup of your sister Samaria;
Drunkenness and anguish will fill you,
for your cup is filled to the brim with distress and desolation,
the same cup your sister Samaria drank.
for your cup is filled to the brim with distress and desolation,
the same cup your sister Samaria drank.
you shall drink it and drain it out,
and gnaw its shards,
and tear your breasts;
for I have spoken, declares the Lord God.
and gnaw its shards,
and tear your breasts;
for I have spoken, declares the Lord God.
You will drain that cup of terror
to the very bottom.
Then you will smash it to pieces
and beat your breast in anguish.
I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!
to the very bottom.
Then you will smash it to pieces
and beat your breast in anguish.
I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!
Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, you yourself must bear the consequences of your lewdness and whoring.”
“And because you have forgotten me and turned your back on me, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: You must bear the consequences of all your lewdness and prostitution.”
The Lord said to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations.
The LORD’s Judgment on Both Sisters
The LORD said to me, “Son of man, you must accuse Oholah and Oholibah of all their detestable sins.
They have committed both adultery and murder — adultery by worshiping idols and murder by burning as sacrifices the children they bore to me.
Moreover, this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my Sabbaths.
Furthermore, they have defiled my Temple and violated my Sabbath day!
For when they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, this is what they did in my house.
On the very day that they sacrificed their children to their idols, they boldly came into my Temple to worship! They came in and defiled my house.
They even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.
“You sisters sent messengers to distant lands to get men. Then when they arrived, you bathed yourselves, painted your eyelids, and put on your finest jewels for them.
You sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.
You sat with them on a beautifully embroidered couch and put my incense and my special oil on a table that was spread before you.
Then I said, ‘If they really want to have sex with old worn-out prostitutes like these, let them!’
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!
And that is what they did. They had sex with Oholah and Oholibah, these shameless prostitutes.
But righteous men 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.”
But righteous people will judge these sister cities for what they really are — adulterers and murderers.
For thus says the Lord God: “Bring up a vast host against them, and make them an object of terror and a plunder.
“Now this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Bring an army against them and hand them over to be terrorized and plundered.
And the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses.
For their enemies will stone them and kill them with swords. They will butcher their sons and daughters and burn their homes.
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.
In this way, I will put an end to lewdness and idolatry in the land, and my judgment will be a warning to all women not to follow your wicked example.
And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and you shall know that I am the Lord God.”
You will be fully repaid for all your prostitution — your worship of idols. Yes, you will suffer the full penalty. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.”