1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,2 Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.3 And they committed whoredom in Egypt; they committed whoredom in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there were handled the teats of their virginity.4 And their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister; and they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names: Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.5 And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians {her} neighbours,6 clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them attractive young men, horsemen riding upon horses.7 And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, all of them the choice of the children of Asshur; and with all after whom she lusted, with all their idols she defiled herself.8 Neither left she her whoredoms {brought} from Egypt; for in her youth they had lain with her, and had handled the breasts of her virginity, and poured their fornication upon her.9 Therefore I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the children of Asshur, after whom she lusted.10 These discovered her nakedness, they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword; and she became a name among women; and they executed judgment upon her.11 And her sister Oholibah saw {this}, and was more corrupt in her passion than she, and in her fornications more than the whoredoms of her sister.12 She lusted after the children of Asshur {her} neighbours, governors and rulers, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them attractive young men.13 And I saw that she was defiled: both took one way.14 And she increased her fornications; 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 on their heads, all of them captains in appearance, {after} the likeness of the children of Babylon, of Chaldea, the land of their nativity.16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted after them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.17 And the children of Babylon came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their fornication; she too defiled herself with them, and her soul was alienated from them.18 And she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness; and my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she played the harlot in the land of Egypt;20 and she lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is {as} the flesh of asses, and whose issue is {as} the issue of horses.21 And thou didst look back to the lewdness of thy youth, in the handling of thy teats by the Egyptians, for the breasts of thy youth.22 Therefore, 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 children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, all the children of Asshur with them; all of them attractive young men, governors and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.24 And they shall come against thee {with} armour, chariots and wheels, and with an assemblage of peoples; they shall set themselves against thee {with} target, and shield, and helmet round about; and I will put judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall cut off thy nose and thine ears, and thy remnant 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 the of thy garments, and take away thy fair jewels.27 And I will make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom {brought} from the land of Egypt; and thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.28 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will give thee over 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 labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare; so that the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy fornications.30 These things shall be done unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the nations, because thou hast defiled thyself with their idols.31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; and I have given her cup into thy hand.32 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large; thou shalt be for a laughing-stock and a derision, {for} it containeth much.33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, the cup of thy sister Samaria;34 thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt gnaw the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own 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 fornications.36 And Jehovah said unto me, Son of man, wilt thou judge Oholah and Oholibah? yea, 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 have also passed over unto them their children, whom they bore unto me, to be devoured.38 Moreover this have they done unto me: in the same day have they defiled my sanctuary and profaned my sabbaths.39 For when they had slaughtered their children unto their idols, they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.40 And furthermore, they sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thine eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments;41 and satest upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hadst set mine incense and mine oil.42 And the voice of a multitude living carelessly was with her; and with people of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, and they put bracelets upon their hands, and a beautiful crown upon their heads.43 And I said of her that was old in adulteries, Will she now commit her fornications, even she.44 And they went in unto her, as they go in unto a whorish woman: 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; for they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.46 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will bring up an assemblage against them, and will give them to be driven hither and thither and spoiled.47 And the assemblage shall stone them with stones, and despatch them with their swords; they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn their houses with fire.48 And I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, and all women shall receive instruction and shall not do according to 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 Verder het die woord van die HERE tot my gekom en gesê:2 Mensekind, daar was twee vroue, dogters van een moeder.3 En hulle het in Egipte gehoereer; in hul jeug het hulle gehoereer; daar is hul borste betas, en daar is hul maagdelike boesem gedruk.4 En hulle name was: Ohola, die grootste, en Oholiba, haar suster; en hulle het myne geword en seuns en dogters gebaar. En wat hulle name betref: Samar¡a is Ohola en Jerusalem Oholiba.5 En Ohola het gehoereer terwyl sy my vrou was, en het gesmag na haar minnaars, na die Assiriërs, krygshaftige mense6 wat pers aangetrek was, goewerneurs en owerstes, almal begeerlike jongmanne, ruiters te perd.7 En sy het haar hoererye aan hulle weggegee, hulle almal, die beste uit die kinders van Assur; en met almal na wie sy gesmag het -- met al hulle drekgode het sy haar verontreinig.8 So het sy dan haar hoererye, uit Egipte afkomstig, nie laat staan nie; want hulle het in haar jeug met haar gemeenskap gehad en hulle het haar maagdelike boesem gedruk en hul hoerery oor haar uitgestort.9 Daarom het Ek haar oorgegee in die hand van haar minnaars, in die hand van die kinders van Assur na wie sy gesmag het.10 Hulle het haar skaamte ontbloot, haar seuns en haar dogters weggeneem; maar haar het hulle met die swaard gedood, sodat sy 'n waarskuwende voorbeeld onder die vroue geword het, en hulle het strafgerigte aan haar voltrek.11 Alhoewel haar suster Oholiba dit gesien het, het sy dit tog met haar verliefdheid erger gemaak as sy, en met haar hoererye nog erger as haar suster.12 Sy het gesmag na die seuns van Assur, goewerneurs en owerstes, krygshaftige mense, pragtig aangetrek, ruiters te perd, almal begeerlike jongmanne.13 Toe het Ek gesien dat sy verontreinig was: altwee het dieselfde weg bewandel.14 Ja, sy het nog meer gehoereer; toe sy manne sien wat op die muur afgeteken was, afbeeldinge van die Chaldeërs, geteken met rooiminie;15 omgord met 'n gordel aan hulle heupe, met oorhangende tulbande op hulle hoofde, in hulle voorkoms almal offisiere, in die gestalte van die seuns van Babel wie se geboorteland Chald,a is --16 net toe sy hulle sien, het sy na hulle gesmag en boodskappers na hulle gestuur, na Chald,a toe.17 Daarop kom die kinders van Babel by haar, na die bed van liefde, en verontreinig haar met hulle hoerery, en sy het onrein geword deur hulle; daarna het haar siel van hulle vervreemd geraak.18 En toe sy haar hoererye geopenbaar en haar skaamte ontbloot het, het my siel van haar vervreemd geraak, soos my siel vervreemd geraak het van haar suster.19 Ja, sy het haar hoererye baie gemaak deur te dink aan die dae van haar jeug toe sy 'n hoer was in Egipteland.20 En sy het gesmag na hulle wellustelinge, wat sinlik soos esels en onstuimig van drif was soos perde.21 En jy het na die skandelike daad van jou jeug verlang, toe die van Egipte jou boesem gedruk het om jou jeugdige borste ontwil.22 Daarom, o Oholiba, so sê die Here HERE: Kyk, Ek verwek jou minnaars, van wie jou siel vervreemd geraak het, teen jou, en Ek sal hulle van alle kante teen jou aanbring:23 die kinders van Babel en al die Chaldeërs, Pekod en Soa en Koa, al die kinders van Assur saam met hulle, begeerlike jongmanne wat almal goewerneurs en owerstes is, offisiere en aansienlike mense wat almal te perd ry.24 En hulle sal teen jou kom met 'n hoop strydwaens en wiele en met 'n menigte van volke; groot skild en klein skild en helm sal hulle rondom teen jou rig; en Ek sal die strafgerig aan hulle oorgee, en hulle sal jou vonnis volgens hulle reg.25 En Ek sal my ywer teen jou rig, dat hulle in grimmigheid met jou handel: hulle sal jou neus en jou ore afsny, en die wat van jou oorbly, sal deur die swaard val; hulle sal jou seuns en jou dogters wegneem, en wat van jou oorbly, sal deur vuur verteer word.26 Hulle sal jou ook jou klere uittrek en jou versiersels wegneem.27 So sal Ek dan by jou 'n einde maak aan jou skandelike dade en jou hoerery, uit Egipteland afkomstig; en jy sal jou oë nie na hulle opslaan en aan Egipte nie meer dink nie.28 Want so sê die Here HERE: Kyk, Ek sal jou oorgee in die hand van hulle wat jy haat, in die hand van hulle van wie jou siel vervreemd geraak het.29 En hulle sal jou as vyand behandel en al jou goed wegneem en jou naak en bloot laat staan, sodat jou ontugtige skaamte ontbloot kan word. Ja, jou skandelike dade en jou hoererye30 het jou dit aangedoen deurdat jy agter nasies aan gehoereer het en omdat jy met hulle drekgode verontreinig is.31 In die weg van jou suster het jy gewandel; daarom sal Ek haar beker in jou hand gee.32 So sê die Here HERE: Jy sal die beker van jou suster drink wat diep en wyd is -- jy sal tot 'n belagging en 'n spot word -- die beker wat so baie bevat.33 Van dronkenskap en kommer sal jy vol word; die beker van jou suster Samar¡a is 'n beker van huiwering en ontsetting.34 En jy sal dit drink en uitsuig en aan sy skerwe knaag en jou borste oopskeur; want Ek het dit gespreek, spreek die Here HERE.35 Daarom, so sê die Here HERE: Omdat jy My vergeet het en My agter jou rug gewerp het, so dra jy dan ook nou jou skandelike dade en jou hoererye.36 En die HERE het vir my gesê: Mensekind, wil jy Ohola en Oholiba oordeel? Maak hulle dan hul gruwels bekend.37 Want hulle het owerspel begaan, en daar is bloed aan hulle hande: met hul drekgode het hulle owerspel begaan en ook hul seuns wat hulle vir My gebaar het, as spys vir hulle deur die vuur laat deurgaan.38 Verder het hulle My d¡t aangedoen: hulle het my heiligdom op dieselfde dag verontreinig en my sabbatte ontheilig --39 as hulle hul kinders vir hulle drekgode slag, kom hulle op dieselfde dag na my heiligdom om dit te ontheilig; en kyk, so het hulle gedoen binne-in my huis.40 Ja, hulle het selfs na manne gestuur wat van ver gekom het -- aan wie 'n boodskapper gestuur is, en kyk, hulle het gekom! -- vir wie jy jou gewas, jou oë geverf en sierade aangesit het.41 En jy het gesit op 'n pragtige bed waarvoor 'n tafel reggemaak is en waar jy my reukwerk en my olie op neergesit het;42 en daarbinne was die stem van 'n sorgelose menigte. En by manne uit die menigte van mense is daar wynsuipers aangebring uit die woestyn; die het armbande aan hulle hande gesit en 'n pragtige kroon op hulle hoofde.43 Toe sê Ek: Bedryf die verwelkte nog owerspel? Nou sal haar hoererye self hoerery gaan bedrywe.44 En hulle het by haar ingegaan soos 'n mens ingaan by 'n hoer; so het hulle ingegaan by Ohola en Oholiba, die ontugtige vroue.45 En regverdige manne, die sal hulle vonnis volgens die reg van owerspeelsters en volgens die reg van vroue wat bloed vergiet; want hulle is owerspeelsters, en bloed is aan hulle hande.46 Want so sê die Here HERE: Laat hulle teen hulle 'n vergadering oproep en hulle tot 'n skrikbeeld maak en 'n plundering.47 En die vergadering moet hulle stenig en hulle met hul swaarde stukkend kap; hulle seuns en dogters moet hulle doodmaak en hulle huise met vuur verbrand.48 So sal Ek dan die skandelike dade uit die land laat ophou, dat al die vroue hulle kan laat waarsku om geen skandelikheid te begaan soos julle nie.49 En hulle sal julle skandelike dade op julle laat neerkom, en julle sal die sondes van julle drekgode dra; en julle sal weet dat Ek die Here HERE is.