Tree Of Life Version

Ezekiel 23:28-45 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

28. For thus says Adonai Elohim: “Behold, I will give you into the hand of those you hate, into the hand of those you turned away from in disgust.

29. They will treat you with hatred, take all your property and leave you naked and exposed. The vulgarity of your prostitutions will be uncovered—your debauchery and your promiscuity.

30. These things will be done to you, for you have gone as a harlot after the nations, so you are defiled with their idols.

31. You have walked in the way of your sister, so I will give her cup into your hand.”

32. Thus says Adonai Elohim: “You will drink of your sister’s cup, which is deep and wide. You will be for laughter and ridicule. It holds so much!

33. You will be filled with drunkenness and agony, a cup of horror and desolation—the cup of your sister Samaria.

34. You will drink it and drain it, gnaw its shards and tear your breasts. For I have spoken.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

35. Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “Because you have forgotten Me and thrust Me behind your back, you will also bear your obscenity and your harlotry.”

36. Then Adonai said to me, “Son of man, will you pass judgment on Oholah and Oholibah? Confront them with their disgusting practices.

37. For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols and even offered their children, whom they bore for Me, to be devoured.

38. Again, this they have done to Me—they defiled My Sanctuary on the same day and profaned My Shabbatot.

39. On the same day that they slaughtered their children to their idols, they came into My Sanctuary to profane it. See, that is what they have done within My House!

40. “Furthermore, they sent for men who come from far away. A messenger was sent to them, and look, they came! For them you bathed, painted your eyes and decked yourself with jewelry.

41. You sat on a glorious bed, with a table arranged before it, on which you set out My incense and My oil.

42. The sound of a carefree crowd was with her. Many of the men who came from the desert were drunkards. They put bracelets on their hands and beautiful crowns on their heads.”

43. Then I said about her, worn out from harlotry: “Still they commit immorality with her—even her?

44. They keep going to her, as they go to a prostitute. So they went to Oholah and to Oholibah—the obscene women.

45. Righteous men would judge them as adulteresses are judged and as those who shed blood are judged. For they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.”