Lexham English Bible

Ezekiel 23:30-48 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

30. These things are accomplished against you since you prostituted yourself after the nations, and on account of that, you defiled yourself by their idols.

31. You went in the same way of your sister, and I will give her cup into your hand.” ’

32. Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “You will drink the deep and wide cup of your sister; you will be as laughter and as scorn; the cup holds so much!

33. You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, for a cup of horror and desolation is the cup of your sister, Samaria.

34. And you will drink it, and you will drain it, and its potsherds you will gnaw, and you will tear out your breasts, for I myself spoke,” declares the Lord Yahweh.

35. Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Because you have forgotten me, and you threw me behind your back, now in turn you bear your obscene conduct and your whorings.”

36. And Yahweh said to me, “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah and declare their abominable deeds to them?

37. For they committed adultery, and blood is on their hands, and they committed adultery with their idols, and even their children that they had borne for me—they sacrificed them as food!

38. Also they did this to me: they defiled my sanctuary on that day, and they profaned my Sabbaths,

39. and when they slaughtered their children for their idols, they came to my sanctuary on that day to profane it. And look, this is what they did in my house!

40. What is worse, they sent for men who come from a distant place, to whom a messenger was sent to them, and look! They came! Men for whom you bathed and painted your eyes, and you adorned yourself with an ornament.

41. And you sat on a magnificent couch and a table prepared before her, and my incense and my olive oil you put on her.

42. And a sound of a carefree crowd was with it, and in addition to these men, a crowd of drunken men was brought in from the desert, and they put bracelets on their arms and a crown of splendor on their heads.

43. And I said to the one worn out with adulteries, ‘Now they will prostitute her concerning her fornication, even her.’

44. And so they went to her like going to a female prostitute; and thus they went to Oholah and to Oholibah, the women of obscene conduct.

45. But righteous men, they will judge them with the judgment of committing adultery, and with the judgment of shedding blood; for they were committing adultery, and blood was on their hands.”

46. For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Bring up against them an assembly, and make them as a thing of horror and as plunder.

47. And an assembly must stone them with stones, and they must cut them down. With their swords they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and with fire they shall burn their houses.

48. And I will cause obscene conduct to cease from the land, and all of the women will be warned, and they will not do according to your wickedness.