Hezekiel 23

¹Ve Rab'bin sözü bana gelip şöyle dedi:

²"İnsanoğlu, tek bir annenin kızları olan iki kadın vardı.

³Gençliklerinde Mısır'da fahişelik yaptılar; orada göğüsleri ezildi, orada bekaretleri bozuldu.

⁴Büyük olanının adı Oola, kız kardeşinin adı ise Ooliba'ydı. Benim oldular; oğullar ve kızlar doğurdular. Adlarına gelince, Oola Samiriye'dir, Ooliba ise Yeruşalim'dir.

⁵Oola bana aitken fahişelik yaptı ve aşıklarına, yanı başındaki Asurlulara tutkuyla yöneldi.

⁶Onlar mor giysiler giyinmiş valiler ve komutanlardı; hepsi seçkin gençler, ata binen süvarilerdi.

⁷Fahişeliğini onlara sundu; hepsi Asur'un en seçkin oğullarıydı. Tutkuyla yöneldiği herkesin tüm putlarıyla kendini kirletti.

⁸Mısır'dan kalma fahişeliğini de bırakmadı; çünkü gençliğinde onunla yatmışlar, bekaretini bozmuşlar ve fahişeliklerini üzerine akıtmışlardı.

⁹Bu yüzden onu aşıklarının eline, üzerine tutkuyla yöneldiği Asur oğullarının eline teslim ettim.

¹⁰Onun çıplaklığını açtılar, oğullarını ve kızlarını aldılar, kendisini de kılıçla öldürdüler. Kadınlar arasında adı bir dedikodu konusu oldu ve onun üzerinde yargılarını uyguladılar.

¹¹Kız kardeşi Ooliba bunu gördüğü halde, tutkusunu ondan daha çok yozlaştırdı ve fahişeliği kız kardeşinin fahişeliğini aştı.

¹²Yanı başındaki Asur oğullarına, lüks giysiler giyinmiş valilere ve komutanlara, ata binen süvarilere, o seçkin gençlerin hepsine tutkuyla yöneldi.

¹³Onun da kirlendiğini gördüm; her ikisinin de yolu birdi.

¹⁴Fahişeliğini daha da artırdı; duvara oyma kalemiyle çizilmiş adam resimleri, Kildani tasvirleri gördü.

¹⁵Bellerinde süslü kemerler, başlarında renk renk sarıklar vardı; hepsinin görünüşü seçkin komutanlar gibiydi, kendi yurtları olan Babil topraklarındaki Kildanilerin benzeriydiler.

¹⁶Onları gözleriyle görür görmez onlara tutkuyla yöneldi ve Kildaniler ülkesine, onlara haberciler gönderdi.

¹⁷Babil oğulları konaklayanların yatağı için ona geldiler ve onu fahişelikleriyle kirlettiler; onlarla kirlendi ve sonunda canı onlardan soğudu.

¹⁸Fahişeliğini ve çıplaklığını açığa vurdu; canım kız kardeşinden nasıl soğuduysa, ondan da öylece soğudu.

¹⁹Yine de Mısır toprağında fahişelik yaptığın gençlik günlerini anarak fahişeliklerini çoğalttın.

²⁰Etleri eşek eti, cinsel organları at organı gibi olan Kildanilere tutkuyla yöneldin.

²¹Mısır'da kaldığın barınakta gençliğinin göğüslerinin okşandığı o gençlik döneminin ahlaksızlığını özledin.

²²Bu yüzden, ey Ooliba, Rab şöyle diyor: İşte, canının kendilerinden soğuduğu aşıklarını sana karşı kışkırtacağım ve onları her yandan senin üzerine getireceğim.

²³Babil oğullarını, bütün Kildanileri, Pekod'u, Şoa'yı, Koa'yı ve onlarla birlikte bütün Asur oğullarını; hepsi seçkin gençler, valiler ve komutanlar, hepsi ata binen ünlü yöneticiler ve süvariler.

²⁴Kuzeyden savaş arabaları, tekerlekler ve büyük bir uluslar topluluğuyla, kalkanlar ve zırhlarla sana karşı gelecekler; çevreni kuşatacaklar. Davayı onların önüne koyacağım ve seni kendi kanunlarına göre yargılayacaklar.

²⁵Kıskançlığımı sana yönelteceğim ve sana öfkeyle davranacaklar; burnunu ve kulaklarını kesecekler, senden geri kalanlar kılıçla düşecek. Oğullarını ve kızlarını alacaklar, senden geri kalanları ise ateş yiyip bitirecek.

²⁶Giysilerini soyacaklar ve süslü takılarını alacaklar.

²⁷Böylece senin ahlaksızlığını ve Mısır toprağından beri süregelen fahişeliğini senden uzaklaştıracağım; artık onlara gözünü dikmeyeceksin ve Mısır'ı bir daha anmayacaksın.

²⁸Çünkü Egemen Rab şöyle diyor: İşte, seni nefret ettiğin, canının kendilerinden soğuduğu kişilerin eline teslim edeceğim.

²⁹Sana nefretle davranacaklar, bütün emeğinin ve zahmetinin ürününü alacaklar; seni çıplak ve utandırılmış bırakacaklar. Fahişeliğinin çıplaklığı, ahlaksızlığın ve fahişeliğin açığa çıkacak.

³⁰Ulusların ardınca fahişelik yaptığın ve onların putlarıyla kendini kirlettiğin için bunlar senin başına geldi.

³¹Kız kardeşinin yolunda yürüdün; bu yüzden onun kâsesini senin eline vereceğim.

³²Rab şöyle diyor: Kız kardeşinin derin ve geniş kâsesini içeceksin; o kâse tamamen sarhoş edecek kadar çok şey alır, alay ve maskara konusu olacaksın.

³³Dehşet ve kederle dolacaksın; kız kardeşin Samiriye'nin kâsesi, yıkım ve dehşet kâsesidir.

³⁴Onu içip son damlasına kadar tüketeceksin, onun bayramlarını ve yeni aylarını ortadan kaldıracağım; çünkü ben böyle söyledim, diyor Rab.

³⁵Bu yüzden Egemen Rab şöyle diyor: Beni unuttuğun ve beni bedeninin arkasına attığın için, ahlaksızlığının ve fahişeliğinin cezasını sen kendin çekeceksin.

³⁶Rab bana şöyle dedi: "İnsanoğlu, Oola ile Ooliba'yı yargılamayacak mısın? Öyleyse onlara yaptıkları iğrençlikleri bildir.

³⁷Çünkü zina ettiler ve ellerinde kan var; putlarıyla zina ettiler, bana doğurdukları çocuklarını bile putlar için ateşten geçirdiler.

³⁸Üstelik bana şunu da yaptılar: Aynı gün tapınağımı kirlettiler ve Şabat günlerimi saymadılar.

³⁹Çocuklarını putlarına kurban ettikleri gün, tapınağımı kirletmek için oraya girdiler; işte, evimin ortasında böyle yaptılar.

⁴⁰Hatta uzaklardan gelecek adamlar için haberciler gönderdiler; onlar gelir gelmez hemen yıkandın, gözlerine sürme çektin ve takılarla süslendin.

⁴¹Süslü bir yatağa oturdun, önüne donatılmış bir sofra kuruldu; benim buhurumu ve zeytinyağımı onların önüne koydun.

⁴²Orada uyumlu bir şarkının sesi yükseliyordu; çölden gelen çok sayıda adamın yanı sıra sarhoşlar da getirildi. Kadınların ellerine bilezikler, başlarına görkemli taçlar koydular.

⁴³Ben de, 'Bu yaşlı fahişeyle mi zina edecekler? Kendisi de fahişelik işlerine devam edecek mi?' dedim.

⁴⁴Bir fahişenin yanına girer gibi onun yanına girdiler; ahlaksızlık yapmak için Oola'nın ve Ooliba'nın yanına böyle girdiler.

⁴⁵Ama doğru adamlar, onları bir zaniye ve kan döken bir kadın gibi yargılayacaklar; çünkü onlar zaniyedir ve ellerinde kan vardır.

⁴⁶Çünkü Egemen Rab şöyle diyor: Onların üzerine bir topluluk çıkar, onları dehşete ve yağmaya teslim et.

⁴⁷Topluluk onları taşlasın, kılıçlarıyla parça parça etsin; oğullarını ve kızlarını öldürsünler, evlerini ateşle yaksınlar.

⁴⁸Böylece ülkeden ahlaksızlığı kaldıracağım; bütün kadınlar ders alacak ve sizin ahlaksızlığınızı taklit etmeyecekler.

⁴⁹Ahlaksızlığınız kendi başınıza dönecek, putlarınızın günahlarının cezasını çekeceksiniz; ve benim Egemen Rab olduğumu anlayacaksınız."

¹ΚΑΙ ἐγένετο λόγος Κυρίου πρός με λέγων·

²υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, δύο γυναῖκες ἦσαν θυγατέρες μητρὸς μιᾶς

³καὶ ἐξεπόρνευσαν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ ἐν τῇ νεότητι αὐτῶν· ἐκεῖ ἔπεσον οἱ μαστοὶ αὐτῶν, ἐκεῖ διεπαρθενεύθησαν.

⁴καὶ τὰ ὀνόματα αὐτῶν ἦν ᾿Οολὰ ἡ πρεσβυτέρα καὶ ᾿Οολιβὰ ἡ ἀδελφὴ αὐτῆς. καὶ ἐγένοντό μοι καὶ ἔτεκον υἱοὺς καὶ θυγατέρας, καὶ τὰ ὀνόματα αὐτῶν· Σαμάρεια ἦν ᾿Οολὰ καὶ ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ ἦν ᾿Οολιβά.

⁵καὶ ἐξεπόρνευσεν ἡ ᾿Οολὰ ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ καὶ ἐπέθετο ἐπὶ τοὺς ἐραστὰς αὐτῆς, ἐπὶ τοὺς ᾿Ασσυρίους τοὺς ἐγγίζοντας αὐτῇ,

⁶ἐνδεδυκότας ὑακίνθινα, ἡγουμένους καὶ στρατηγούς· νεανίσκοι καὶ ἐπίλεκτοι πάντες, ἱππεῖς ἱππαζόμενοι ἐφ’ ἵππων.

⁷καὶ ἔδωκε τὴν πορνείαν αὐτῆς ἐπ’ αὐτούς· ἐπίλεκτοι υἱοὶ ᾿Ασσυρίων πάντες, καὶ ἐπὶ πάντας, οὓς ἐπέθετο, ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς ἐνθυμήμασιν αὐτοῖς ἐμιαίνετο.

⁸καὶ τὴν πορνείαν αὐτῆς ἐξ Αἰγύπτου οὐκ ἐγκατέλιπεν, ὅτι μετ’ αὐτῆς ἐκοιμῶντο ἐν νεότητι αὐτῆς, καὶ αὐτοὶ διεπαρθένευσαν αὐτὴν καὶ ἐξέχεαν τὴν πορνείαν αὐτῶν ἐπ’ αὐτήν.

⁹διὰ τοῦτο παρέδωκα αὐτὴν εἰς χεῖρας τῶν ἐραστῶν αὐτῆς, εἰς χεῖρας υἱῶν ᾿Ασσυρίων, ἐφ’ οὓς ἐπετίθετο.

¹⁰αὐτοὶ ἀπεκάλυψαν τὴν αἰσχύνην αὐτῆς, υἱοὺς καὶ θυγατέρας αὐτῆς ἔλαβον καὶ αὐτὴν ἐν ῥομφαίᾳ ἀπέκτειναν. καὶ ἐγένετο λάλημα εἰς γυναῖκας, καὶ ἐποίησαν ἐκδικήσεις ἐν αὐτῇ εἰς τὰς θυγατέρας. -

¹¹Καὶ εἶδεν ἡ ἀδελφὴ αὐτῆς ᾿Οολιβὰ καὶ διέφθειρε τὴν ἐπίθεσιν αὐτῆς ὑπὲρ αὐτὴν καὶ τὴν πορνείαν αὐτῆς ὑπὲρ τὴν πορνείαν τῆς ἀδελφῆς αὐτῆς.

¹²ἐπὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν ᾿Ασσυρίων ἐπέθετο, ἡγουμένους καὶ στρατηγοὺς τοὺς ἐγγὺς αὐτῆς ἐνδεδυκότας εὐπάρυφα, ἱππεῖς ἱππαζομένους ἐφ’ ἵππων· νεανίσκοι ἐπίλεκτοι πάντες.

¹³καὶ εἶδον ὅτι μεμίανται· ὁδὸς μία τῶν δύο.

¹⁴καὶ προσέθετο πρὸς τὴν πορνείαν αὐτῆς καὶ εἶδεν ἄνδρας ἐζωγραφημένους ἐπὶ τοῦ τοίχου, εἰκόνας Χαλδαίων, ἐζωγραφημένους ἐν γραφίδι,

¹⁵ἐζωσμένους ποικίλματα ἐπὶ τὰς ὀσφύας αὐτῶν, καὶ τιάραι βαπταὶ ἐπὶ τῶν κεφαλῶν αὐτῶν, ὄψις τρισσὴ πάντων, ὁμοίωμα υἱῶν Χαλδαίων, γῆς πατρίδος αὐτῶν,

¹⁶καὶ ἐπέθετο ἐπ’ αὐτοὺς τῇ ὁράσει ὀφθαλμῶν αὐτῆς καὶ ἐξαπέστειλεν ἀγγέλους πρὸς αὐτοὺς εἰς γῆν Χαλδαίων.

¹⁷καὶ ἤλθοσαν πρὸς αὐτὴν υἱοὶ Βαβυλῶνος εἰς κοίτην καταλυόντων καὶ ἐμίαινον αὐτὴν ἐν τῇ πορνείᾳ αὐτῆς, καὶ ἐμιάνθη ἐν αὐτοῖς· καὶ ἀπέστη ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτῆς ἀπ’ αὐτῶν.

¹⁸καί ἀπεκάλυψε τὴν πορνείαν αὐτῆς καὶ ἀπεκάλυψεν αἰσχύνην αὐτῆς, καὶ ἀπέστη ἡ ψυχή μου ἀπ’ αὐτῆς, ὃν τρόπον ἀπέστη ἡ ψυχή μου ἀπὸ τῆς ἀδελφῆς αὐτῆς.

¹⁹καὶ ἐπλήθυνας τὴν πορνείαν σου τοῦ ἀναμνῆσαι ἡμέραν νεότητός σου, ἐν αἷς ἐπόρνευσας ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ,

²⁰καὶ ἐπέθου ἐπὶ τοὺς Χαλδαίους, ὧν ὡς ὄνων αἱ σάρκες αὐτῶν καὶ αἰδοῖα ἵππων τὰ αἰδοῖα αὐτῶν.

²¹καὶ ἐπεσκέψω τὴν ἀνομίαν νεότητός σου, ἃ ἐποίεις ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ ἐν τῷ καταλύματί σου, οὗ οἱ μαστοὶ νεότητός σου. -

²²Διὰ τοῦτο ᾿Οολιβά, τάδε λέγει Κύριος· ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐξεγείρω τοὺς ἐραστάς σου ἐπὶ σέ, ἀφ’ ὧν ἀπέστη ἡ ψυχή σου ἀπ’ αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐπάξω αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ σὲ κυκλόθεν,

²³υἱοὺς Βαβυλῶνος καὶ πάντας τοὺς Χαλδαίους, Φακοὺδ καὶ Σουὲ καὶ Κουὲ καὶ πάντας υἱοὺς ᾿Ασσυρίων μετ’ αὐτῶν, νεανίσκους ἐπιλέκτους, ἡγεμόνας καὶ στρατηγοὺς πάντας, τρισσοὺς καὶ ὀνομαστοὺς ἱππεύοντας ἐφ’ ἵππων·

²⁴καὶ πάντες ἥξουσιν ἐπὶ σὲ ἀπὸ βορρᾶ, ἅρματα καὶ τροχοὶ μετ’ ὄχλου λαῶν, θυρεοὶ καὶ πέλται, καὶ βαλοῦσι φυλακὴν ἐπὶ σὲ κύκλῳ.

²⁵καὶ δώσω πρὸ προσώπου αὐτῶν κρίμα, καὶ ἐκδικήσουσί σε ἐν τοῖς κρίμασιν αὐτῶν. καὶ δώσω τὸν ζῆλόν μου ἐν σοί, καὶ ποιήσουσι μετὰ σοῦ ἐν ὀργῇ θυμοῦ· μυκτῆρά σου καὶ ὦτά σου ἀφελοῦσι καὶ τοὺς καταλοίπους σου ἐν ρομφαίᾳ καταβαλοῦσιν. αὐτοὶ υἱούς σου καὶ θυγατέρας σου λήψονται, καὶ τοὺς καταλοίπους σου πῦρ καταφάγεται.

²⁶καὶ ἐκδύσουσί σε τὸν ἱματισμόν σου καὶ λήψονται τὰ σκεύη τῆς καυχήσεώς σου.

²⁷καὶ ἀποστρέψω τὰς ἀσεβείας σου ἐκ σοῦ καὶ τὴν πορνείαν σου ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου, καὶ οὐ μὴ ἄρῃς τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς σου ἐπ’ αὐτούς, καὶ Αἰγύπτου οὐ μὴ μνησθῇς οὐκέτι.

²⁸διότι τάδε λέγει Κύριος Κύριος· ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ παραδίδωμί σε εἰς χεῖρας ὧν μισεῖς, ἀφ’ ὧν ἀπέστη ἡ ψυχή σου ἀπ’ αὐτῶν.

²⁹καί ποιήσουσιν ἐν σοὶ ἐν μίσει καὶ λήψονται πάντας τοὺς πόνους σου καὶ τοὺς μόχθους σου, καὶ ἔσῃ γυμνὴ καὶ αἰσχύνουσα, καὶ ἀποκαλυφθήσεται αἰσχύνη πορνείας σου καὶ ἀσέβειά σου. καὶ ἡ πορνεία σου

³⁰ἐποίησε ταῦτά σοι ἐν τῷ ἐκπορνεῦσαί σε ὀπίσω ἐθνῶν καὶ ἐμιαίνου ἐν τοῖς ἐνθυμήμασιν αὐτῶν.

³¹ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ τῆς ἀδελφῆς σου ἐπορεύθης, καὶ δώσω τὸ ποτήριον αὐτῆς εἰς χεῖράς σου.

³²τάδε λέγει Κύριος· τὸ ποτήριον τῆς ἀδελφῆς σου πίεσαι, τὸ βαθὺ καὶ τὸ πλατύ, τὸ πλεονάζον τοῦ συντελέσαι μέθην,

³³καὶ ἐκλύσεως πλησθήσῃ· καὶ τὸ ποτήριον ἀφανισμοῦ, ποτήριον ἀδελφῆς σου Σαμαρείας,

³⁴καὶ πίεσαι αὐτό· καὶ τὰς ἑορτὰς καὶ τὰς νουμηνίας αὐτῆς ἀποστρέψω· διότι ἐγὼ λελάληκα, λέγει Κύριος.

³⁵διὰ τοῦτο τάδε λέγει Κύριος· ἀνθ’ ὧν ἐπελάθου μου καὶ ἀπέρριψάς με ὀπίσω τοῦ σώματός σου, καὶ σὺ λαβὲ τὴν ἀσέβειάν σου καὶ τὴν πορνείαν σου. -

³⁶Καὶ εἶπε Κύριος πρός με· υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, οὐ κρινεῖς τὴν ᾿Οολὰν καὶ τὴν ᾿Οολιβάν, καὶ ἀναγγελεῖς αὐταῖς τὰς ἀνομίας αὐτῶν;

³⁷ὅτι ἐμοιχῶντο, καὶ αἷμα ἐν χερσὶν αὐτῶν· τὰ ἐνθυμήματα αὐτῶν ἐμοιχῶντο, καὶ τὰ τέκνα αὐτῶν, ἃ ἐγέννησάν μοι, διήγαγον αὐτοῖς δι’ ἐμπύρων.

³⁸ἕως καὶ ταῦτα ἐποίησάν μοι· τὰ ἅγιά μου ἐμίαινον καὶ τὰ σάββατά μου ἐβεβήλουν·

³⁹καὶ ἐν τῷ σφάζειν αὐτοὺς τὰ τέκνα αὐτῶν τοῖς εἰδώλοις αὐτῶν καὶ εἰσεπορεύοντο εἰς τὰ ἅγιά μου τοῦ βεβηλοῦν αὐτά· καὶ ὅτι οὕτως ἐποίουν ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ οἴκου μου.

⁴⁰καὶ ὅτι τοῖς ἀνδράσι τοῖς ἐρχομένοις μακρόθεν, οἷς ἀγγέλους ἐξαπέστειλαν πρὸς αὐτούς, καὶ ἅμα τῷ ἔρχεσθαι αὐτοὺς εὐθὺς ἐλούου καὶ ἐστιβίζου τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς σου καὶ ἐκόσμου κόσμῳ

⁴¹καὶ ἐκάθου ἐπὶ κλίνης ἐστρωμένης, καὶ τράπεζα κεκοσμημένη πρὸ προσώπου αὐτῆς, καὶ τὸ θυμίαμα καὶ τὸ ἔλαιόν μου εὐφραίνοντο ἐν αὐτοῖς.

⁴²καὶ φωνὴν ἁρμονίας ἀνεκρούοντο, καὶ πρὸς ἄνδρας ἐκ πλήθους ἀνθρώπων ἥκοντας ἐκ τῆς ἐρήμου, καὶ ἐδίδοσαν ψέλλια ἐπὶ τὰς χεῖρας αὐτῶν καὶ στέφανον καυχήσεως ἐπὶ τὰς κεφαλὰς αὐτῶν.

⁴³καὶ εἶπα· οὐκ ἐν τούτοις μοιχεύουσι; καὶ ἔργα πόρνης καὶ αὐτὴ ἐξεπόρνευσε.

⁴⁴καὶ εἰσεπορεύοντο πρὸς αὐτήν, ὃν τρόπον εἰσπορεύονται πρὸς γυναῖκα πόρνην, οὕτως εἰσεπορεύοντο πρὸς ᾿Οολὰν καὶ πρὸς ᾿Οολιβὰν τοῦ ποιῆσαι ἀνομίαν.

⁴⁵καὶ ἄνδρες δίκαιοι αὐτοὶ καὶ ἐκδικήσουσιν αὐτὰς ἐκδικήσει μοιχαλίδος καὶ ἐκδικήσει αἵματος, ὅτι μοιχαλίδες εἰσί, καὶ αἷμα ἐν χερσὶν αὐτῶν.

⁴⁶τάδε λέγει Κύριος Κύριος· ἀνάγαγε ἐπ’ αὐτὰς ὄχλον καὶ δὸς ἐν αὐταῖς ταραχὴν καὶ διαρπαγὴν

⁴⁷καὶ λιθοβόλησον ἐπ’ αὐτὰς λίθοις ὄχλων καὶ κατακέντει αὐτὰς ἐν τοῖς ξίφεσιν αὐτῶν· υἱοὺς αὐτῶν καὶ θυγατέρας αὐτῶν ἀποκτενοῦσι καὶ τοὺς οἴκους αὐτῶν ἐμπρήσουσι.

⁴⁸καὶ ἀποστρέψω ἀσέβειαν ἐκ τῆς γῆς, καὶ παιδευθήσονται πᾶσαι αἱ γυναῖκες καὶ οὐ μὴ ποιήσουσι κατὰ τὰς ἀσεβείας αὐτῶν.

⁴⁹καὶ δοθήσεται ἡ ἀσέβεια ὑμῶν ἐφ’ ὑμᾶς, καὶ τὰς ἁμαρτίας τῶν ἐνθυμημάτων ὑμῶν λήψεσθε· καὶ γνώσεσθε διότι ἐγὼ Κύριος.

¹And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

²Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother:

³and they went a-whoring in Egypt in their youth: there their breasts fell, there they lost their virginity.

⁴And their names were Oola the elder, and Ooliba her sister: and they were mine, and bore sons and daughters: and [as for] their names, Samaria was Oola, and Jerusalem was Ooliba.

⁵And Oola went a-whoring from me, and doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians that were her neighbors,

⁶clothed with purple, princes and captains; [they were] young men and choice, all horseman riding on horses.

⁷And she bestowed her fornication upon them; all were choice sons of the Assyrians: and on whomsoever she doted herself, with them she defiled herself in all [their] devices.

⁸And she forsook not her fornication with the Egyptians: for in her youth they committed fornication with her, and they deflowered her, and poured out their fornication upon her.

⁹Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the children of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.

¹⁰They uncovered her shame: they took her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became a byword among women: and they wrought vengeance in her for the sake of the daughters.

¹¹And her sister Ooliba saw [it], and she indulged in her fondness more corruptly than she, and in her fornication more than the fornication of her sister.

¹²She doted upon the sons of the Assyrian, princes and captains, her neighbours, clothed with fine linen, horsemen riding on horses; [they were] all choice young men.

¹³And I saw that they were defiled, [that] the two [had] one way.

¹⁴And she increased her fornication, and she saw men painted on the wall, likenesses of the Chaldeans painted with a pencil,

¹⁵having variegated girdles on their loins, having also richly dyed [attire] upon their heads; all had a princely appearance, the likeness of the children of the Chaldeans, of their native land.

¹⁶And she doted upon them as soon as she saw them, and sent forth messengers to them into the land of the Chaldeans.

¹⁷And the sons of Babylon came to her, into the bed of rest, and they defiled her in her fornication, and she was defiled by them, and her soul was alienated from them.

¹⁸And she exposed her fornication, and exposed her shame: and my soul was alienated from her, even as my soul was alienated from her sister.

¹⁹And thou didst multiply thy fornication, so as to call to remembrance the days of thy youth, wherein thou didst commit whoredom in Egypt,

²⁰and thou didst dote upon the Chaldeans, whose flesh is as the flesh of the asses, and their members [as] the members of horses.

²¹And thou didst look upon the iniquity of thy youth, [the things] which thou wroughtest in Egypt in thy lodgings, where were the breasts of thy youth.

²²Therefore, Ooliba, thus saith the Lord; Behold, I [will] stir up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy soul is alienated, and I will bring them upon thee round about,

²³the children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, Phacuc, and Sue, and Hychue, and all the sons of the Assyrians with them; choice young men, governors and captains, all princes and renowned, riding on horses.

²⁴And they all shall come upon thee from the north, chariots and wheels, with a multitude of nations, shields and targets; and [the enemy] shall set a watch against thee round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall take vengeance on thee with their judgments.

²⁵And I will bring upon thee my jealousy, and they shall deal with thee in great wrath: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and shall cast down thy remnant with the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy remnant fire shall devour.

²⁶And they shall strip thee of thy raiment, and take [away] thine ornaments.

²⁷So I will turn back thine ungodliness from thee, and thy fornication from the land of Egypt: and thou shalt not lift up thine eyes upon them, and shalt no more remember Egypt.

²⁸Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I [will] deliver thee into the hands of those whom thou hatest, from whom thy soul is alienated.

²⁹And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take all [the fruits] of thy labours and thy toils, and thou shalt be naked and bare: and the shame of thy fornication shall be exposed: and thy ungodliness and thy fornication

³⁰brought this upon thee, in that thou wentest a-whoring after the nations, and didst defile thyself with their devices.

³¹Thou didst walk in the way of thy sister; and I will put her cup into thine hands.

³²Thus saith the Lord; Drink thy sister’s cup, deep and large, and full, to cause complete drunkenness.

³³And thou shalt be thoroughly weakened; and the cup of destruction, the cup of thy sister Samaria,

³⁴drink thou it, and I will take away her feasts and her new moons: for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord.

³⁵Therefore thus saith the Lord; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore receive thou [the reward] of thine ungodliness and thy fornication.

³⁶And the Lord said to me, Son of man wilt thou not judge Oola and Ooliba? and declare to them their iniquities?

³⁷For they have committed adultery, and blood was in their hands, they committed adultery with their devices, and they passed through the fire to them their children which they bore to me.

³⁸So long too as they did these things to me, they defiled my sanctuary, and profaned my sabbaths.

³⁹And when they sacrificed their children to their idols, they also went into my sanctuary to profane it: and whereas they did thus in the midst of my house;

⁴⁰and whereas they did thus to the men that came from afar, to whom they sent messengers, and as soon as they came, immediately thou didst wash thyself, and didst paint thine eyes and adorn thyself with ornaments,

⁴¹and satest on a prepared bed, and before it [there was] a table set out, and [as for] mine incense and mine oil, they rejoiced in them,

⁴²and they raised a sound of music, and [that] with men coming from the wilderness out of a multitude of men, and they put bracelets on their hands, and a crown of glory on their heads;

⁴³Therefore I said, Do they not commit adultery with these? and has she also gone a-whoring [after] the manner of a harlot?

⁴⁴And they went in to her, as [men] go in to a harlot; so they went in to Oola and to Ooliba to work iniquity.

⁴⁵And they are just men, and shall take vengeance on them with the judgment of an adulteress and the judgment of blood: for they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

⁴⁶Thus saith the Lord God, Bring up a multitude upon them, and send trouble and plunder into the midst of them.

⁴⁷And stone them with the stones of a multitude, and pierce them with their swords: they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and shall burn up their houses.

⁴⁸And I will remove ungodliness out of the land, and all the women shall be instructed, and shall not do according to their ungodliness.

⁴⁹And your ungodliness shall be recompensed upon you, and ye shall bear the guilt of your devices: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.