26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no
difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed differencebetween the
unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
27 Her princes in the midst thereof arelike wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, andto
destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies
unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor
and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap
before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire
of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
3 And 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.
4 And the names of them wereAholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine,
and they bare sons and daughters. Thus weretheir names; Samaria isAholah, and Jerusalem
Aholibah.
5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the
Assyrians herneighbours,
6 Which wereclothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen
riding upon horses.
7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that werethe chosen men of
Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
8 Neither left she her whoredoms broughtfrom Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and
they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
9 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians,
upon whom she doted.
10 These 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.
11 And 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 herwhoredoms.
12 She doted upon the Assyrians herneighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously,
horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
13 Then I saw that she was defiled, thatthey tookboth one way,
14 And thatshe increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the
images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
15 Girded 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:
16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto
them into Chaldea.
17 And 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.
18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was
alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein
she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

20 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is asthe flesh of asses, and whose issue is
likethe issue of horses.
21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the
Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
22 Therefore, 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;
23 The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, andall the Assyrians with
them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of
them riding upon horses.
24 And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly
of people, whichshall 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.
25 And 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.
26 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom broughtfrom the land
of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
28 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of themwhom thou
hatest, into the hand of themfrom whom thy mind is alienated:
29 And 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.
30 I will do these thingsunto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and
because thou art polluted with their idols.
31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.
32 Thus 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.
33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and
desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
34 Thou shalt even drink it and suck itout, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck
off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
35 Therefore 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.
36 The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea,
declare unto them their abominations;
37 That they have committed adultery, and blood isin 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.
38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and
have profaned my sabbaths.
39 For 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.
40 And 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,
41 And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine
incense and mine oil.
42 And a voice of a multitude being at ease waswith her: and with the men of the common sort

werebrought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful
crowns upon their heads.
43 Then said I unto her that wasold in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her,
and she with them?
44 Yet 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.
45 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after
the manner of women that shed blood; because they areadulteresses, and blood isin their hands.
46 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be
removed and spoiled.
47 And 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.
48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do
after your lewdness.
49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols:
and ye shall know that I amthe Lord GOD.
1 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth dayof the month, the word of the
LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, evenof this same day: the king of Babylon set
himself against Jerusalem this same day.
3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set
on a pot, set iton, and also pour water into it:
4 Gather the pieces thereof into it, evenevery good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it
with the choice bones.
5 Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, andmake it boil well, and let
them seethe the bones of it therein.
6 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum istherein,
and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.
7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon
the ground, to cover it with dust;
8 That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a
rock, that it should not be covered.
9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire
great.
10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be
burned.
11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and
thatthe filthiness of it may be molten in it, thatthe scum of it may be consumed.
12 She hath wearied herselfwith lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum
shall bein the fire.
13 In thy filthiness islewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou
shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
14 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither
will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they
judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.
15 Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither
shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put