New American Bible, Revised Edition

Ezekiel 23:31-42 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

31. Because you followed your sister’s path, I will put her cup into your hand.

32. Thus says the Lord God:The cup of your sister you shall drink,deep and wide;It brings ridicule and mockery,it holds so much;

33. You will be filled with drunkenness and grief—A cup of horror and devastation,the cup of your sister Samaria;

34. You shall drink it dry,its very sherds you will gnaw;And you shall tear out your breasts;for I have spoken—oracle of the Lord God.

35. Therefore thus says the Lord God: You have forgotten me and cast me behind your back; now suffer for your depravity and prostitution.

36. Then the Lord said to me: Son of man, would you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then make known to them their abominations.

37. For they committed adultery, and blood covers their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; even the children they bore for me they burnt as food for them.

38. And they also did this to me: on that day, they defiled my sanctuary and desecrated my sabbaths.

39. On the very day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered my sanctuary to desecrate it. Thus they acted within my house!

40. Moreover, they sent for men who had to come from afar; when a messenger was sent to them, they came. On their account you bathed, painted your eyes, and put on jewelry.

41. You sat on a magnificent couch, set before it a table, on which to lay my incense and oil.

42. The cries of a mob! The shouts of men coming in from the wilderness! They put bracelets on the women’s arms and splendid crowns on their heads.