1 Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother. 3 They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their youthful nipples were caressed there. 4 Their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.

5 "Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. 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 on horses. 7 She gave herself as a prostitute to them, all of them the choicest men of Assyria. She defiled herself with the idols of whoever she lusted after. 8 She hasn’t left her prostitution since leaving Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her. They caressed her youthful nipples and they poured out their prostitution on her.

9 "Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians on whom she doted. 10 These uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters, and they killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.

11 "Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lusting than she, and in her prostitution which was more depraved than the prostitution of her sister. 12 She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers—her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men. 13 I saw that she was defiled. They both went the same way.

14 "She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with red, 15 dressed with belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like princes, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth. 16 As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea. 17 The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution. She was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them. 18 So she uncovered her prostitution and uncovered her nakedness. Then my soul was alienated from her, just like my soul was alienated from her sister. 19 Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt. 20 She lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. 21 Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the caressing of your nipples by the Egyptians because of your youthful breasts.

22 "Therefore, Oholibah, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side: 23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; all of them desirable young men, governors and rulers, princes and men of renown, all of them riding on horses. 24 They will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples. They will set themselves against you with buckler, shield, and helmet all around. I will commit the judgment to them, and they will judge you according to their judgments. 25 I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will take away your nose and your ears. Your remnant will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and the rest of you will be devoured by the fire. 26 They will also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels. 27 Thus I will make your lewdness to cease from you, and remove your prostitution from the land of Egypt, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.’

28 "For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom your soul is alienated. 29 They will deal with you in hatred, and will take away all your labor, and will leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your prostitution will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution. 30 These things will be done to you because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols. 31 You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.’

32 "The Lord Yahweh says:

‘You will drink of your sister’s cup,

which is deep and large.

You will be ridiculed and held in derision.

It contains much.

33 You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,

with the cup of astonishment and desolation,

with the cup of your sister Samaria.

34 You will even drink it and drain it out.

You will gnaw the broken pieces of it,

and will tear your breasts;

for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh.

35 "Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution.’"

36 Yahweh said moreover 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 in their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire to them to be devoured. 38 Moreover this they have done to 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 behold, they have done this in the middle of my house.

40 "Furthermore you sisters have sent for men who come from far away, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you washed yourself, painted your eyes, decorated yourself with ornaments, 41 and sat on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my oil.

42 "The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. With men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads. 43 Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, ‘Now they will play the prostitute with her, and she with them.’ 44 They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women. 45 Righteous men will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

46 "For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘I will bring up a mob against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed. 47 The company will stone them with stones and dispatch them with their swords. They will kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

48 "‘Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to be lewd like you. 49 They will recompense your lewdness on you, and you will bear the sins of your idols. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.’"

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 mense

6 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 hoererye

30 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.