THE Word of Yahuah came again unto me, saying,
son of A'dam, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
And they committed whoredoms in Mitsrayim; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholiyvah her sister: and they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Shomeron is Oholah, and Yerushalayim Oholiyvah.
And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on El-Ashshur her neighbors,
Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Ashshur, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Mitsrayim: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Ashshuriym, upon whom she doted.
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.
And when her sister Oholiyvah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
She doted upon the Ashshuriym her neighbors, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Kasdiym portrayed with vermilion,
Girded with belts upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the inhabitants of Babel of Kasdiymah, the land of their nativity:
And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Kasdiymah.
And the inhabitants of Babel 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.
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.
Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Mitsrayim.
For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Thus you called to remembrance את the lewdness of your youth, in bruising your teats by the Mitsriym for the breasts of your youth.
Therefore, O Oholiyvah, thus says Adonai Yahuah; Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, את from whom your mind is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side;
The inhabitants of Babel, and all the Kasdiym, Peqod, and Shoa, and Qoa, and all the Ashshuriym with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great princes and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
And they shall come against you with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against you buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
And I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal furiously with you: they shall take away your nose and your ears; and your remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take your sons and your daughters; and your remnant shall be devoured by the fire.
They shall also strip you out of your clothes, and take away your fair jewels.
Thus will I make your lewdness to cease from you, and your whoredom brought from the land of Mitsrayim: so that you shall not lift up your eyes unto them, nor remember Mitsrayim anymore.
For thus says Adonai Yahuah; Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom your mind is alienated:
And they shall deal with you hatefully, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare: and the nakedness of your whoredoms shall be discovered, both your lewdness and your whoredoms.
I will do these things unto you, because you have gone a whoring after the heathen, and because you are polluted with their idols.
You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I give her cup into your hand.
Thus says Adonai Yahuah; You shall drink of your sister's cup deep and large: you shall be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it contains much.
You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Shomeron.
You shall even drink it and suck it out, and you shall break the sherds thereof, and pluck off your own breasts: for I have spoken it, says Adonai Yahuah.
Therefore thus says Adonai Yahuah; Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore bear you also your lewdness and your whoredoms.
Yahuah said moreover unto me; son of A'dam, will you judge Oholah and Oholiyvah? yea, declare unto them את their abominations;
That they have broken wedlock, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they broken wedlock, and have also caused their sons, whom they bore unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Shabbaths.
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 my house.
And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom you did wash yourself, painted your eyes, and decked yourself with ornaments,
And sat upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon you have set my incense and my oil.
And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sheva'iym from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?
Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that plays the harlot: so went they in unto Oholah and unto Oholiyvah, the lewd women.
And 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.
For thus says Adonai Yahuah; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.
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.
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am Adonai Yahuah.