1 Veio a mim a palavra do Senhor, dizendo: 2 Filho do homem, houve duas mulheres, filhas de uma só mãe. 3 Estas se prostituíram no Egito; prostituíram-se na sua mocidade; ali foram apertados os seus peitos e apalpados os seios da sua virgindade. 4 Os seus nomes eram: Oolá, a mais velha, e Oolibá, sua irmã; e foram minhas e tiveram filhos e filhas; e, quanto ao seu nome, Samaria é Oolá, e Jerusalém é Oolibá.

5 Prostituiu-se Oolá, quando era minha; inflamou-se pelos seus amantes, pelos assírios, seus vizinhos, 6 que se vestiam de azul, governadores e sátrapas, todos jovens de cobiçar, cavaleiros montados a cavalo. 7 Assim, cometeu ela as suas devassidões com eles, que eram todos a fina flor dos filhos da Assíria, e com todos aqueles pelos quais se inflamava; com todos os seus ídolos se contaminou. 8 As suas impudicícias, que trouxe do Egito, não as deixou; porque com ela se deitaram na sua mocidade, e eles apalparam os seios da sua virgindade e derramaram sobre ela a sua impudicícia. 9 Por isso, a entreguei nas mãos dos seus amantes, nas mãos dos filhos da Assíria, pelos quais se inflamara. 10 Estes descobriram as vergonhas dela, levaram seus filhos e suas filhas; porém a ela mataram à espada; e ela se tornou falada entre as mulheres, e sobre ela executaram juízos.

11 Vendo isto sua irmã Oolibá, corrompeu a sua paixão mais do que ela, e as suas devassidões foram maiores do que as de sua irmã. 12 Inflamou-se pelos filhos da Assíria, governadores e sátrapas, seus vizinhos, vestidos com primor, cavaleiros montados a cavalo, todos jovens de cobiçar. 13 Vi que se tinha contaminado; o caminho de ambas era o mesmo. 14 Aumentou as suas impudicícias, porque viu homens pintados na parede, imagens dos caldeus, pintados de vermelho: 15 de lombos cingidos e turbantes pendentes da cabeça, todos com aparência de oficiais, semelhantes aos filhos da Babilônia, na Caldeia, em terra do seu nascimento. 16 Vendo-os, inflamou-se por eles e lhes mandou mensageiros à Caldeia. 17 Então, vieram ter com ela os filhos da Babilônia, para o leito dos amores, e a contaminaram com as suas impudicícias; ela, após contaminar-se com eles, enojada, os deixou. 18 Assim, tendo ela posto a descoberto as suas devassidões e sua nudez, a minha alma se alienou dela, como já se dera com respeito à sua irmã. 19 Ela, todavia, multiplicou as suas impudicícias, lembrando-se dos dias da sua mocidade, em que se prostituíra na terra do Egito. 20 Inflamou-se pelos seus amantes, cujos membros eram como o de jumento e cujo fluxo é como o fluxo de cavalos. 21 Assim, trouxeste à memória a luxúria da tua mocidade, quando os do Egito apalpavam os teus seios, os peitos da tua mocidade.

22 Por isso, ó Oolibá, assim diz o Senhor Deus: Eis que eu suscitarei contra ti os teus amantes, os quais, enojada, tu os deixaras, e os trarei contra ti de todos os lados: 23 os filhos da Babilônia e todos os caldeus de Pecode, de Soa, de Coa e todos os filhos da Assíria com eles, jovens de cobiçar, governadores e sátrapas, príncipes e homens de renome, todos montados a cavalo. 24 Virão contra ti do Norte, com carros e carretas e com multidão de povos; pôr-se-ão contra ti em redor, com paveses, e escudos, e capacetes; e porei diante deles o juízo, e julgar-te-ão segundo os seus direitos. 25 Porei contra ti o meu zelo, e eles te tratarão com furor; cortar-te-ão o nariz e as orelhas, e o que restar cairá à espada; levarão teus filhos e tuas filhas, e quem ainda te restar será consumido pelo fogo. 26 Despojar-te-ão dos teus vestidos e tomarão as tuas joias de adorno. 27 Assim, farei cessar em ti a tua luxúria e a tua prostituição, provenientes da terra do Egito; não levantarás os olhos para eles e já não te lembrarás do Egito. 28 Porque assim diz o Senhor Deus: Eis que eu te entregarei nas mãos daqueles a quem aborreces, nas mãos daqueles que, enojada, tu deixaste. 29 Eles te tratarão com ódio, e levarão todo o fruto do teu trabalho, e te deixarão nua e despida; descobrir-se-á a vergonha da tua prostituição, a tua luxúria e as tuas devassidões.

30 Estas coisas se te farão, porque te prostituíste com os gentios e te contaminaste com os seus ídolos. 31 Andaste no caminho de tua irmã; por isso, entregarei o seu copo na tua mão. 32 Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Beberás o copo de tua irmã, fundo e largo; servirás de riso e escárnio; pois nele cabe muito. 33 Encher-te-ás de embriaguez e de dor; o copo de tua irmã Samaria é copo de espanto e de desolação. 34 Tu o beberás, e esgotá-lo-ás, e lhe roerás os cacos, e te rasgarás os peitos, pois eu o falei, diz o Senhor Deus. 35 Portanto, assim diz o Senhor Deus: Como te esqueceste de mim e me viraste as costas, também carregarás com a tua luxúria e as tuas devassidões.

36 Disse-me ainda o Senhor: Filho do homem, julgarás tu a Oolá e a Oolibá? Declara-lhes, pois, as suas abominações. 37 Porque adulteraram, e nas suas mãos há culpa de sangue; com seus ídolos adulteraram, e até os seus filhos, que me geraram, ofereceram a eles para serem consumidos pelo fogo. 38 Ainda isto me fizeram: no mesmo dia contaminaram o meu santuário e profanaram os meus sábados. 39 Pois, havendo sacrificado seus filhos aos ídolos, vieram, no mesmo dia, ao meu santuário para o profanarem; e assim o fizeram no meio da minha casa. 40 E mais ainda: mandaram vir uns homens de longe; fora-lhes enviado um mensageiro, e eis que vieram; por amor deles, te banhaste, coloriste os olhos e te ornaste de enfeites; 41 e te assentaste num suntuoso leito, diante do qual se achava mesa preparada, sobre que puseste o meu incenso e o meu óleo. 42 Com ela se ouvia a voz de muita gente que folgava; com homens de classe baixa foram trazidos do deserto uns bêbados, que puseram braceletes nas mãos delas e, na cabeça, coroas formosas. 43 Então, disse eu da envelhecida em adultérios: continuará ela em suas prostituições? 44 E passaram a estar com ela, como quem frequenta a uma prostituta; assim, passaram a frequentar a Oolá e a Oolibá, mulheres depravadas, 45 de maneira que homens justos as julgarão como se julgam as adúlteras e as sanguinárias; porque são adúlteras, e, nas suas mãos, há culpa de sangue.

46 Pois assim diz o Senhor Deus: Farei subir contra elas grande multidão e as entregarei ao tumulto e ao saque. 47 A multidão as apedrejará e as golpeará com as suas espadas; a seus filhos e suas filhas matarão e as suas casas queimarão. 48 Assim, farei cessar a luxúria da terra, para que se escarmentem todas as mulheres e não façam segundo a luxúria delas. 49 O castigo da vossa luxúria recairá sobre vós, e levareis os pecados dos vossos ídolos; e sabereis que eu sou o Senhor Deus.

1 The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: 3 and they played the harlot in Egypt; they played the harlot in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity. 4 And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they became mine, and they bare sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.

5 And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors, 6 who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. 7 And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on whomsoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself. 8 Neither hath she left her whoredoms since the days of Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their whoredom upon her. 9 Wherefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted. 10 These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they slew with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed judgments upon her.

11 And her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her whoredoms which were more than the whoredoms of her sister. 12 She doted upon the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men. 13 And I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way. 14 And she increased her whoredoms; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, 15 girded with girdles upon their loins, with flowing turbans upon their heads, all of them princes to look upon, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their nativity. 16 And as soon as she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. 17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them. 18 So she uncovered her whoredoms, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister. 19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, remembering the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. 20 And she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. 21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in the handling of thy bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of thy youth.

22 Therefore, O Oholibah, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy soul is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side: 23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors and rulers all of them, princes and men of renown, all of them riding upon horses. 24 And they shall come against thee with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples; they shall set themselves against thee with buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will commit the judgment unto them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments. 25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal with thee in fury; they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire. 26 They shall also strip thee of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels. 27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt; so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more. 28 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy soul is alienated; 29 and they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take away all thy labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare; and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be uncovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

30 These things shall be done unto thee, for that thou hast played the harlot after the nations, and because thou art polluted with their idols. 31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thy hand. 32 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup, which is deep and large; thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much. 33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. 34 Thou shalt even drink it and drain it out, and thou shalt gnaw the sherds thereof, and shalt tear thy breasts; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah. 35 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

36 Jehovah said moreover unto me: Son of man, wilt thou judge Oholah and Oholibah? then declare unto them their abominations. 37 For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery; and they have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass through the fire unto them to be devoured. 38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths. 39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of my house. 40 And furthermore ye have sent for men that come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent, and, lo, they came; for whom thou didst wash thyself, paint thine eyes, and deck thyself with ornaments, 41 and sit upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon thou didst set mine incense and mine oil. 42 And the voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets upon the hands of them twain, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.

43 Then said I of her that was old in adulteries, Now will they play the harlot with her, and she with them. 44 And they went in unto her, as they go in unto a harlot: so went they in unto Oholah and unto Oholibah, the lewd women. 45 And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. 46 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed to and fro and robbed. 47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and despatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. 48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. 49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols; and ye shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.

1 The word of the LORD came to me:

2 "Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother.

3 They became prostitutes in Egypt, engaging in prostitution from their youth. In that land their breasts were fondled and their virgin bosoms caressed.

4 The older was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. They were mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

5 "Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was still mine; and she lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians —warriors

6 clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all of them handsome young men, and mounted horsemen.

7 She gave herself as a prostitute to all the elite of the Assyrians and defiled herself with all the idols of everyone she lusted after.

8 She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.

9 "Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians, for whom she lusted.

10 They stripped her naked, took away her sons and daughters and killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women, and punishment was inflicted on her.

11 "Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.

12 She too lusted after the Assyrians —governors and commanders, warriors in full dress, mounted horsemen, all handsome young men.

13 I saw that she too defiled herself; both of them went the same way.

14 "But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans "portrayed in red,

15 with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea. [^2]

16 As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

17 Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.

18 When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her naked body, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.

20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

21 So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled. [^3]

22 "Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will stir up your lovers against you, those you turned away from in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side —

23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, the men of Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, handsome young men, all of them governors and commanders, chariot officers and men of high rank, all mounted on horses.

24 They will come against you with weapons, "chariots and wagons and with a throng of people; they will take up positions against you on every side with large and small shields and with helmets. I will turn you over to them for punishment, and they will punish you according to their standards.

25 I will direct my jealous anger against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will cut off your noses and your ears, and those of you who are left will fall by the sword. They will take away your sons and daughters, and those of you who are left will be consumed by fire.

26 They will also strip you of your clothes and take your fine jewelry.

27 So I will put a stop to the lewdness and prostitution you began in Egypt. You will not look on these things with longing or remember Egypt anymore.

28 "For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am about to deliver you into the hands of those you hate, to those you turned away from in disgust.

29 They will deal with you in hatred and take away everything you have worked for. They will leave you stark naked, and the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your lewdness and promiscuity

30 have brought this on you, because you lusted after the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.

31 You have gone the way of your sister; so I will put her cup into your hand.

32 "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "You will drink your sister's cup, a cup large and deep; it will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.

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

34 You will drink it and drain it dry and chew on its pieces — and you will tear your breasts. I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.

35 "Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Since you have forgotten me and turned your back on me, you must bear the consequences of your lewdness and prostitution."

36 The LORD said to me: "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then confront them with their detestable practices,

37 for they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, as food for them.

38 They have also done this to me: At that same time they defiled my sanctuary and desecrated my Sabbaths.

39 On the very day they sacrificed their children to their idols, they entered my sanctuary and desecrated it. That is what they did in my house.

40 "They even sent messengers for men who came from far away, and when they arrived you bathed yourself for them, applied eye makeup and put on your jewelry.

41 You sat on an elegant couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed the incense and olive oil that belonged to me.

42 "The noise of a carefree crowd was around her; drunkards were brought from the desert along with men from the rabble, and they put bracelets on the wrists of the woman and her sister and beautiful crowns on their heads.

43 Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, 'Now let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is.'

44 And they slept with her. As men sleep with a prostitute, so they slept with those lewd women, Oholah and Oholibah.

45 But righteous judges will sentence them to the punishment of women who commit adultery and shed blood, because they are adulterous and blood is on their hands.

46 "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Bring a mob against them and give them over to terror and plunder.

47 The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.

48 "So I will put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not imitate you.

49 You will suffer the penalty for your lewdness and bear the consequences of your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD."