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The Prophecy
of Ezechiel 23
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of
man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.
And they committed fornication in Egypt, in their youth
they committed fornication: there were their breasts
pressed down, and the teats of their virginity were
bruised.
And their names were Oolla the elder, and Ooliba her
younger sister: and I took them, and they bore sons
and daughters. Now for their names, Samaria is Oolla,
and Jerusalem is Ooliba.
And Oolla committed fornication against me, and doted
on her lovers, on the Assyrians that came to her,
Who were clothed with blue, princes, and rulers, beautiful
youths, all horsemen, mounted upon horses.
And she committed her fornications with those chosen
men, all sons of the Assyrians: and she defiled herself
with the uncleanness of all them on whom she doted.
Moreover also she did not forsake her fornications which
she had committed in Egypt: for they also lay with her
in her youth, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity,
and poured out their fornication upon her.
Therefore have I delivered her into the hands of her
lovers, into the hands of the sons of the Assyrians,
upon whose lust she doted.
They discovered her disgrace, took away her sons and
daughters, and slew her with the sword: and they became
infamous women, and they executed judgments in her.
And when her sister Ooliba saw this, she was mad with
lust more than she: and she carried her fornication
beyond the fornication of her sister.
Impudently prostituting herself to the children of the
Assyrians, the princes, and rulers that came to her,
clothed with divers colours, to the horsemen that rode
upon horses, and to young men all of great beauty.
And I saw that she was defiled, and that they both took
one way.
And she increased her fornications: and when she had
seen men painted on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans
set forth in colours,
And girded with girdles about their reins, and with
dyed turbans on their heads, the resemblance of all
the captains, the likeness of the sons of Babylon, and
of the land of the Chaldeans wherein they were born,
She doted upon them with the lust of her eyes, and she
sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
And when the sons of Babylon were come to her to the
bed of love, they defiled her with their fornications,
and she was polluted by them, and her soul was glutted
with them.
And she discovered her fornications, and discovered
her disgrace: and my soul was alienated from her, as
my soul was alienated from her sister.
For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the
days of her youth, in which she played the harlot in
the land of Egypt.
And she was mad with lust after lying with them whose
flesh is as the flesh of asses: and whose issue as the
issue of horses.
And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when
thy breasts were pressed in Egypt, and the papa of thy
virginity broken.
Therefore, Ooliba, thus saith the Lord God: Behold I
will raise up against thee all thy lovers with whom
thy soul hath been glutted: and I will gather them together
against thee round about.
The children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, the
nobles, and the kings, and princes, all the sons of
the Assyrians, beautiful young men, all the captains,
and rulers, the princes of princes, and the renowned
horsemen.
And they shall come upon thee well appointed with chariot
and wheel, a multitude of people: they shall be armed
against thee on every side with breastplate, and buckler,
and helmet: and I will set judgment before them, and
they shall judge thee by their judgments.
And I will set my jealousy against thee, which they
shall execute upon thee with fury: they shall cut off
thy nose and thy ears: and what remains shall fall by
the sword: they shall take thy sons, and thy daughters,
and thy residue shall be devoured by fire.
And they shall strip thee of thy garments, and take
away the instruments of thy glory.
And I will put an end to thy wickedness in thee, and
thy fornication brought out of the land of Egypt: neither
shalt thou lift up thy eyes to them, nor remember Egypt
any more.
For thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will deliver
thee into the hands of them whom thou hatest, into their
hands with whom thy soul hath been glutted.
And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and they shall
take away all thy labours, and shall let thee go naked,
and full of disgrace, and the disgrace of thy fornication
shall be discovered, thy wickedness, and thy fornications.
They have done these things to thee, because thou hast
played the harlot with the nations among which thou
wast defiled with their idols.
Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister, and I will
give her cup into thy hand.
Thus saith the Lord God: Thou shalt drink thy sister's
cup, deep, and wide: thou shalt be had in derision and
scorn, which containeth very much.
Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness, and sorrow: with
the cup of grief, and sadness, with the cup of thy sister
Samaria.
And thou shalt drink it, and shalt drink it up even
to the dregs, and thou shalt devour the fragments thereof,
thou shalt rend thy breasts: because I have spoken it,
saith the Lord God.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast
forgotten me, and hast cast me off behind thy back,
bear thou also thy wickedness, and thy fornications.
And the Lord spoke to me, saying: Son of man, dost thou
judge Oolla, and Ooliba, and dost thou declare to them
their wicked deeds?
Because they have committed adultery, and blood is in
their hands, and they have committed fornication with
their idols: moreover also their children, whom they
bore to me, they have offered to them to be devoured.
Yea, and they have done this to me. They polluted my
sanctuary on the same day, and profaned my sabbaths.
And when they sacrificed their children to their idols,
and went into my sanctuary the same day to profane it:
they did these things even in the midst of my house.
They sent for men coming from afar, to whom they had
sent a messenger: and behold they came: for whom thou
didst wash thyself, and didst paint thy eyes, and wast
adorned with women's ornaments.
Thou sattest on a very fine bed, and a table was decked
before thee: whereupon thou didst set my incense, and
my ointment.
And there was in her the voice of a multitude rejoicing:
and to some that were brought of the multitude of men,
and that came from the desert, they put bracelets on
their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.
And I said to her that was worn out in her adulteries:
Now will this woman still continue in her fornication.
And they went in to her, as to a harlot: so went they
in unto Oolla, and Ooliba, wicked women.
They therefore are k just men: these shall judge them
as adulteresses are judged, and as shedders of blood
are judged: because they are adulteresses, and blood
is in their hands.
For thus saith the Lord God: Bring a multitude upon
them, and deliver them over to tumult and rapine:
And lee the people stone them with stones, and let them
be stabbed with their swords: they shall kill their
sons and daughters, and their houses they shall burn
with fire.
And I will take away wickedness out of the land: and
all women shall learn, not to do according to the wickedness
of them.
And they shall render your wickedness upon you, and
you shall bear the sins of your idols: and you shall
know that I am the Lord God. |
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