1 The word of the LORD came to me:
2 "Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother.
3 They played the harlot in Egypt, played the harlot when they were young; there their breasts were fondled, and there their virgin nipples were caressed.
4 The older was named Oholah, and her sister Oholibah. They became mine and bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
5 "Oholah played the harlot while she belonged to me; she was infatuated with her lovers, the Assyrians, her neighbors,
6 dressed in blue, governors and commanders, all of them attractive young men, horsemen mounted on horses.
7 She gave her harlotries to them, the elite of Assyria, all of them, and with everyone she was infatuated with, with all their idols, she defiled herself.
8 She did not give up the harlotry she had brought from Egypt, for in her youth they had lain with her, caressed her virgin nipples and poured out their lust on her.
9 So I handed her over to her lovers, to the Assyrians she was infatuated with.
10 They exposed her nakedness, took away her sons and her daughters, and killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women, and judgments were carried out on her.
11 "Her sister Oholibah saw it, yet she was even more corrupt in her infatuation than her sister, and her harlotries outdid her sister's harlotries.
12 She was infatuated with the Assyrians, governors and commanders, her neighbors, clothed in full splendor, horsemen mounted on horses, all of them attractive young men.
13 I saw that she had defiled herself; both of them went the same way.
14 But she carried her harlotries further. She saw men carved on the wall, images of Chaldeans drawn in red,
15 with belts around their waists and long turbans hanging from their heads, all of them looking like officers, the likeness of Babylonians from Chaldea, the land of their birth.
16 The moment she laid eyes on them, she became infatuated with them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
17 The Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and defiled her with their harlotry; and after she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.
18 She exposed her harlotries and exposed her nakedness, and I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.
19 Still she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
20 She was infatuated with their paramours there, whose members were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
21 So you longed again for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your nipples for the sake of your young breasts.
22 "So, Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: 'I am going to stir up your lovers against you, the ones you turned away from in disgust, and bring them against you from all around:
23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, attractive young men, governors and commanders all of them, officers and men of note, all mounted on horses.
24 They will come against you with weapons, chariots and wheels, and a host of peoples; they will set themselves against you all around with buckler, shield and helmet. I will hand judgment over to them, and they will judge you by their own judgments.
25 I will direct my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in fury: they will cut off your nose and your ears, and whatever is left of you will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters, and whatever is left of you will be eaten up by fire.
26 They will strip off your clothes and take your splendid jewelry.
27 So I will put a stop to your lewdness and the harlotry you brought from the land of Egypt; you will not lift your eyes toward them or remember Egypt anymore.'
28 "For thus says the Lord GOD: 'I am going to hand you over to those you hate, to those you turned away from in disgust.
29 They will deal with you in hatred, take away everything you have worked for and leave you naked and bare; the nakedness of your harlotries will be exposed, your lewdness and your harlotries.
30 These things will be done to you because you played the harlot after the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
31 You have walked in your sister's way, so I will put her cup in your hand.'
32 "Thus says the Lord GOD: 'You will drink your sister's cup, deep and wide; it will bring you laughter and scorn, so much does it hold.
33 You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, a cup of horror and ruin, the cup of your sister Samaria.
34 You will drink it and drain it, gnaw its broken pieces and tear at your breasts, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.'
35 "So thus says the Lord GOD: 'Because you forgot me and threw me behind your back, you must also bear your lewdness and your harlotries.'"
36 Then the LORD said to me, "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then confront them with their abominations.
37 For they have committed adultery and there is blood on their hands; with their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them as food the sons they bore to me.
38 Moreover they have done this to me: on that same day they defiled my sanctuary and profaned my Sabbaths.
39 After slaughtering their sons for their idols, on that same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. That is what they did inside my house.
40 "They even sent for men to come from far away; a messenger was sent to them, and they came. For them you bathed, painted your eyes and decked yourself in jewelry.
41 You sat on a splendid couch with a table set in front of it, on which you had put my incense and my oil.
42 The noise of a carefree crowd was with her, and along with men from the common mass, Sabeans were brought from the wilderness; they put bracelets on the women's hands and splendid crowns on their heads.
43 Then I said of the one worn out by adulteries, 'Now they will commit harlotries with her, and she with them.'
44 They went in to her as one goes in to a harlot; so they went in to Oholah and Oholibah, the lewd women.
45 But righteous men will judge them with the judgment due to adulteresses and the judgment due to women who shed blood, for they are adulteresses and there is blood on their hands.
46 "For thus says the Lord GOD: 'Bring up a mob against them and hand them over to terror and plunder.
47 The mob will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and their daughters and burn down their houses.
48 So I will put a stop to lewdness in the land, and all women will be warned not to practice lewdness as you have.
49 Your lewdness will be paid back on you, and you will bear the sins of your idols; and you will know that I am the Lord GOD.'"