The Scriptures 1998

Ezekiel 23:30-43 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

30. ‘I do this to you because of your whoring after the gentiles, because you have been defiled by their idols.

31. ‘You have walked in the way of your sister, and I shall give her cup into your hand.’

32. “Thus said the Master יהוה, ‘Drink of your sister’s cup, the deep and wide one – you being laughed at and mocked at – for it holds much.

33. ‘Be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, the cup of astonishment and ruin, the cup of your sister Shomeron.

34. ‘And you shall drink it and shall drain it, and gnaw its shards, and tear at your own breasts. For I have spoken,’ declares the Master יהוה.

35. “Therefore thus said the Master יהוה, ‘Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, therefore you shall bear your wickedness and your whorings.’ ”

36. And יהוה said to me, “Son of man, judge Oholah and Oholiḇah! And declare to them their abominations.

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

38. “They also did this to Me: They have defiled My set-apart place on the same day, and they have profaned My Sabbaths.

39. “For when they had slain their children for their idols, on the same day they came into My set-apart place to profane it. And see, that is what they did in the midst of My House.

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

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

42. “And the sound of a crowd at ease was with her, and drunkards were brought from the wilderness with men of the commonest sort. And they put bracelets on their wrists and pretty crowns on their heads.

43. “Then I said concerning the one worn out in adulteries, ‘Now let them commit her whorings, even hers!’