1The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying , 2Son of man , there were two women , the daughters of one mother : 3And 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 . 4And 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 . 5And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine ; and she doted on her lovers , on the Assyrians her neighbours , 6Which were clothed with blue , captains and rulers , all of them desirable young men , horsemen riding upon horses . 7Thus 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. 8Neither 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. 9Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers , into the hand of the Assyrians , upon whom she doted . 10These 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.
The Judgment on the Sisters
11And 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 . 12She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours , captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously , horsemen riding upon horses , all of them desirable young men . 13Then I saw that she was defiled , that they took both one way , 14And that she increased her whoredoms : for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall , the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion , 15Girded 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 : 16And as soon as she saw them with her eyes , she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea . 17And 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. 18So she discovered her whoredoms , and discovered her nakedness : then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister . 19Yet she multiplied her whoredoms , in calling to remembrance the days of her youth , wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt . 20For she doted upon their paramours , whose flesh is as the flesh of asses , and whose issue is like the issue of horses . 21Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth , in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth .
The Decrees of Destruction
22Therefore, 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 ; 23The 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 . 24And 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 . 25And 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 . 26They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes , and take away thy fair jewels . 27Thus 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. 28For 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 : 29And 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 . 30I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen , and because thou art polluted with their idols . 31Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister ; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand . 32Thus 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 . 33Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow , with the cup of astonishment and desolation , with the cup of thy sister Samaria . 34Thou 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 . 35Therefore 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 .
The Call to Repentance
36The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man , wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah ? yea, declare unto them their abominations ; 37That 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 . 38Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day , and have profaned my sabbaths . 39For 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 . 40And 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 , 41And satest upon a stately bed , and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil . 42And 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 . 43Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries , Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them ? 44Yet 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 . 45And 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 . 46For thus saith the Lord GOD ; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled . 47And 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 . 48Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land , that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness . 49And 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 .