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21 Thus you called to remembrance the defiled by their idols. You have walked in the
lewdness of your youth, way of your sister; therefore I will put her cup
When the Egyptians pressed your in your hand.’
bosom 32 “Thus says the Lord GOD:
Because of your youthful breasts.
‘You shall drink of your sister’s cup,
22 “Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord The deep and wide one;
GOD: You shall be laughed to scorn
And held in derision;
‘Behold, I will stir up your lovers It contains much.
against you, 33
From whom you have alienated yourself, You will be filled with drunkenness and
sorrow,
And I will bring them against you from The cup of horror and desolation,
every side:
23 The Babylonians, 34 The cup of your sister Samaria.
All the Chaldeans, You shall drink and drain it,
Pekod, Shoa, Koa, You shall break its shards,
And tear at your own breasts;
All the Assyrians with them, For I have spoken,’
All of them desirable young men, Says the Lord GOD.
Governors and rulers,
Captains and men of renown, 35 “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD:
All of them riding on horses.
24 And they shall come against you ‘Because you have forgotten Me and
cast Me behind your back,
With chariots, wagons, and war-horses, Therefore you shall bear the penalty
With a horde of people. Of your lewdness and your harlotry.’ ”
They shall array against you
Buckler, shield, and helmet all around. 36 The LORD also said to me: “Son of man, will
you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then de-
‘I will delegate judgment to them, 37
And they shall judge you according to clare to them their abominations. For they
their judgments. have committed adultery, and blood is on their
I will set My jealousy against you,
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And they shall deal furiously with you; their idols, and even sacrificed their sons whom
They shall remove your nose they bore to Me, passing them through the fire,
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and your ears, to devour them. Moreover they have done this
And your remnant shall fall by the to Me: They have defiled My sanctuary on the
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sword; same day and profaned My Sabbaths. For
They shall take your sons and your after they had slain their children for their
daughters, idols, on the same day they came into My sanc-
And your remnant shall be devoured tuary to profane it; and indeed thus they have
by fire. done in the midst of My house.
26 40 “Furthermore you sent for men to come
They shall also strip you of your clothes
And take away your beautiful jewelry. from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and
there they came. And you washed yourself for
27 ‘Thus I will make you cease your them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself
lewdness and your harlotry with ornaments. You sat on a stately couch,
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Brought from the land of Egypt, with a table prepared before it, on which you
So that you will not lift your eyes to had set My incense and My oil. The sound of
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them,
Nor remember Egypt anymore.’ a carefree multitude was with her, and
Sabeans were brought from the wilderness
28 “For thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Surely I will with men of the common sort, who put
deliver you into the hand of those you hate, bracelets on their wrists and beautiful crowns
into the hand of those from whom you alienat- on their heads. Then I said concerning her
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ed yourself. They will deal hatefully with you, who had grown old in adulteries, ‘Will they
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take away all you have worked for, and leave commit harlotry with her now, and she with
you naked and bare. The nakedness of your them?’ Yet they went in to her, as men go in to
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harlotry shall be uncovered, both your lewd- a woman who plays the harlot; thus they went
ness and your harlotry. I will do these things in to Oholah and Oholibah, the lewd women.
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to you because you have gone as a harlot after 45 But righteous men will judge them after the
the Gentiles, because you have become manner of adulteresses, and after the manner
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