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; they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters. Thus [were] their names: Samaria [is] Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah. 5And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she fell in love with her lovers, the Assyrians [her] neighbours, 6[which 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 those [that were] the chosen men of Assyria, and with all whom she fell in love; with all their idols she defiled herself. 8Neither did she leave her whoredoms of Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity and poured their whoredom upon her. 9Therefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, of whom she fell in love. 10These uncovered 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 judgments upon her. 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 fell in love with the Assyrians [her] neighbours, captains and rulers clothed to perfection, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men. 13Then I saw that she was defiled, [that] they both [took] the same way 14and [that] she increased her whoredoms, for when she saw men painted upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans painted in colour, 15girded with girdles upon their loins, and mitres painted upon their heads, all of them looking like princes, after the manner of the men of Babylon, born in the land of the Chaldeans, 16she fell in love with them as soon as she saw them with her eyes 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 soul was disjointed from them. 18So she uncovered her whoredoms, and uncovered her nakedness; then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister. 19Yet she multiplied her whoredoms in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, in which 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 didst call to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the breasts of thy youth. 22Therefore, O Aholibah, thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy desire is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side: 23the Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, rulers, and princes, and captains, [and] all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men; all of them 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 a multitude of peoples, [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 laws. 25And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal with thee in furor; they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and what is left shall fall by the sword; they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy remnant shall be devoured by the fire. 26They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes and take away the vessels of thy glory. 27Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee and thy whoredom of the land of Egypt, so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more. 28For thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I deliver thee into the hand [of those] whom thou hatest, into the hand [of those] from whom thy soul 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 uncovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. 30I will do these [things] unto thee because thou hast gone a whoring after the Gentiles [and] because thou art polluted with their idols. 31Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore I will put her cup into thine hand. 32Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large; the Gentiles shall laugh thee to scorn and hold thee in derision; it contains much. 33Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and with pain [because] of the cup of astonishment and desolation, [because] of the cup of thy sister Samaria. 34Thou shalt even drink it and finish it, and thou shalt break its shards and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken [it], said the Lord GOD. 35Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because thou hast forgotten me and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. 36And The LORD said unto me: Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah and declare unto them their abominations? 37For they have committed adultery, and blood [is] on their hands, and with their idols they have committed adultery and have even caused their sons, whom they bore 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 sons unto their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house. 40And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger [was] sent; and, behold, they came for the love of whom thou didst wash thyself, paint thy eyes, and deck thyself with ornaments, 41and sit upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, upon which thou hast set my incense and my oil. 42And in her was heard a voice of a multitude at a feast; and with the men [of renown] were brought the Sabeans from the wilderness to multiply the men, and they put bracelets upon their hands and crowns of glory upon their heads. 43Then said I unto [her that was] old in adulteries, Now shalt thy whoredoms come to an end, and she [with them]; 44for they have come to her, as those who come to a woman that plays the harlot, so they went in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women. 45Therefore righteous men shall judge them by the law of adulteresses and after the law of women that shed blood because they [are] adulteresses, and blood [is] on their hands. 46For thus hath the Lord GOD said: 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 the lust to cease out of the land that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. 49And they shall recompense your lust upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols; and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.: