New King James Version

Ezekiel 23:32-43 New King James Version (NKJV)

32. “Thus says the Lord God:‘You shall drink of your sister’s cup,The deep and wide one;You shall be laughed to scornAnd held in derision;It contains much.

33. You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,The cup of horror and desolation,The cup of your sister Samaria.

34. You shall drink and drain it,You shall break its shards,And tear at your own breasts;For I have spoken,’Says the Lord God.

35. “Therefore thus says the Lord God:‘Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back,Therefore you shall bear the penaltyOf your lewdness and your harlotry.’ ”

36. The Lord also said to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.

37. For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and even sacrificed their sons whom they bore to Me, passing them through the fire, to devour them.

38. Moreover they have done this to Me: They have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and profaned My Sabbaths.

39. For after they had slain their children for their idols, on the same day they came into My sanctuary to profane it; and indeed thus they have done in the midst of My house.

40. “Furthermore you sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and there they came. And you washed yourself for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.

41. You sat on a stately couch, with a table prepared before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil.

42. The sound of a carefree multitude was with her, and Sabeans were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort, who put bracelets on their wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads.

43. Then I said concerning her who had grown old in adulteries, ‘Will they commit harlotry with her now, and she with them?’