Ezequiel 23

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 whomever 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.’"

Ko Ohora rāua ko Ohoripa

1 I puta mai anō te kupu a Ihowā ki ahau, i mea: 2 "E te tama a te tangata, tokorua ngā wāhine i mua, he tamāhine nā te whaea kotahi. 3 Heoi, moepuku ana ki Īhipa; moepuku ana i tō rāua tamarikitanga. I romia ō rāua ū ki reira, i mirimiria ki reira ngā matamata o tō rāua wāhinatanga. 4 Nā, ko ō rāua ingoa, ko Ohora tō te tuakana, ko Ohoripa tō te teina. Ā, i riro rāua i ahau, i whānau hoki he tama, he tamāhine mā rāua. Nā, mō ō rāua ingoa, ko Hamaria a Ohora, ko Hiruhārama a Ohoripa.

5 "Nā, kua kairau a Ohora i te mea i ahau anō ia, minamina atu ana ki āna i aroha ai, ki ōna hoa tata, ki ngā Ahiriana, 6 he purū nei ō rātou kākahu, he ariki, he kāwana, he taitamariki, e minaminatia rātou katoa, he tāngata hōiho, e eke ana ki te hōiho. 7 Heoi, kei te mahi kairau ia ki a rātou, ki ngā tāngata papai rawa o ngā tama o Ahiria, ki a rātou katoa; ā, ahakoa ko wai i minaminatia e ia, whakapoke ana ia i a ia anō ki ā rātou whakapakoko katoa. 8 Kīhai anō i mahue i a ia āna moepuku mai o ngā rā o Īhipa; i takoto hoki rātou ki a ia i tōna tamarikitanga, ā, mirimiria ana e rātou ngā matamata o tōna wāhinatanga, ringihia ana e rātou ā rātou moepuku ki runga ki a ia.

9 "Nā reira ia i tukua ai e ahau ki te ringa o te hunga i arohaina e ia, ki te ringa o ngā tamariki o Ahiria, o āna i minamina ai. 10 Ā, hurahia ana ia e rātou kia noho tahanga; tangohia ana e rātou āna tama, āna tamāhine, patua iho ia e rātou ki te hoari; ā, whai ingoa ana ia i roto i ngā wāhine; i mahia hoki e rātou he whakawā ki a ia.

11 "Ā, ka kite tōna teina, a Ohoripa, i tēnei, otiia i nui atu te kino o tōna minamina i tō tērā, ōna moepuku hoki i nui atu i o tōna tuakana. 12 Minamina ana ia ki ngā Ahiriana, ki ōna hoa tata, ki ngā ariki, ki ngā kāwana, he pai rawa nei ngā kākahu, he tāngata hōiho e eke ana ki te hōiho, ko rātou katoa he tamariki e minaminatia. 13 Nā, ka kite ahau kua poke ia, kotahi tonu te ara ō rāua tokorua.

14 "Kua neke ake anō ōna moepuku; i kite hoki ia i ngā tāngata kua oti te tuhituhi ki te pakitara, i ngā whakaahua o ngā Karari, he mea tuhituhi ki te whero pai, 15 he mea whītiki ō rātou hope ki te whītiki, ō rātou māhunga mea rawa ki te kākahu kua oti te rongoā, he rangatira katoa ki te titiro; ko te āhua kei tō ngā tama o Papurōna, o Karari, o te whenua i whānau ai rātou. 16 Ā, nō te kitenga o ōna kanohi i a rātou, minamina tonu ki a rātou, tukua ana e ia he karere ki a rātou, ki Karari. 17 Nā, ka haere mai ki a ia o ngā tamariki o Papurōna ki te moenga aroha, whakapokea ana ia e rātou ki ā rātou moepuku. Heoi, ka whakapokea nei e rātou, nā, ngākaukore noa iho ia ki a rātou. 18 Heoi, ka whakakitea e ia ōna moepuku, ka whakakitea anō ia e noho tahanga ana; nā, ngākaukore noa iho ahau ki a ia, pērā tonu me ahau i ngākaukore rā ki tōna tuakana. 19 Heoi, whakanuia ana e ia ōna moepuku, me te mahara anō ia ki ngā rā o tōna tamarikitanga i a ia i kairau rā ki te whenua o Īhipa. 20 I minamina hoki ia ki ō rātou hoa moepuku, he kikokiko kāihe nei ō rātou kikokiko; ā, ko te mea e tārere mai ana i roto i a rātou rite tonu ki te mea e tārere mai ana i roto i te hōiho. 21 Nā, kua hokia nei e koe ngā hē o tōu tamarikitanga i ngā matamata o ōu ū i mirimiria rā e ngā Īhipiana, he meatanga ki ngā ū o tōu tamarikitanga.

22 "Mō reira, e Ohoripa, ko te kupu tēnei a te Ariki, a Ihowā: Nanā, ka ara i ahau ōu hoa aroha hei hoariri mōu, ērā kua ngākaukore nā koe ki a rātou, ka kawea mai anō rātou e ahau ki a koe ki ngā taha katoa – 23 ko ngā tāngata o Papurōna, rātou ko ngā Karari katoa, a Pekoro, a Hoa, a Koa, rātou ko ngā Ahiriana katoa: he taitamariki rātou katoa e minaminatia, he ariki, he kāwana, he rangatira, he rongo nui, he eke hōiho katoa. 24 Ā, ka haere mai rātou ki te whawhai ki a koe, me ngā mea mō te whawhai, he hāriata anō ō rātou, he kāta, he whakaminenga iwi; rite rawa i a rātou te puapua, te whakangungu rākau, te pōtae, hei whawhai ki a koe i tētahi taha, i tētahi taha. Ka tukua anō e ahau te whakawā ki tō rātou aroaro, ā, ka rite ki ā rātou whakaritenga tā rātou whakarite mōu. 25 Ka whakataua anō e ahau tōku hae ki a koe, ā, ka mahi weriweri rātou ki a koe. Ka riro anō tōu ihu i a rātou, me ōu taringa; ka hinga anō hoki ōu mōrehu i te hoari. Ka tangohia atu e rātou āu tama me āu tamāhine; ka pau anō ōu mōrehu i te ahi. 26 Ka huia atu anō e rātou ōu kākahu, ka tangohia anō ōu mea ātaahua. 27 Heoi, ka meinga e ahau tōu hē kia mutu, me tōu moepuku i tīmata mai rā i te whenua o Īhipa; kia kore ai ōu kanohi e ara ki aua mea, kia kore ai anō koe e mahara ki Īhipa ā muri ake nei.

28 "Nō te mea ko te kupu tēnei a te Ariki, a Ihowā: Tēnei ahau ka hoatu nei i a koe ki te ringa o te hunga e kinongia nā e koe, ki roto ki te ringa o te hunga kua ngākaukore nā koe ki a rātou. 29 Ka mahi anō rātou i runga i te mauāhara ki a koe, ā, ka riro ōu māuiui katoa i a rātou, mahue iho koe i a rātou kāhore he kākahu, noho tahanga ana. Ka kitea hoki e takoto kau ana ōu moepuku, tōu hē me ōu moepuku. 30 Ka meatia ēnei mea e ahau ki a koe mō tōu whāinga atu ki ngā tauiwi moepuku ai, mōu i poke i ā rātou whakapakoko. 31 I haere koe i te ara o tōu tuakana; nā, ka hoatu e ahau tāna kapu ki tōu ringa.

32 "Ko te kupu tēnei a te Ariki, a Ihowā:

Ka inumia e koe te kapu a tōu tuakana,

aua noa iho ki raro, nui noa atu;

ka ai koe hei whakakatanga, hei taunutanga;

ranea rawa taua kapu.

33 Ka kī koe i te haurangi, i te pōuri,

i te kapu o te ketekete, o te whakangaromanga,

i te kapu a tōu tuakana, a Hamaria.

34 Ka inumia anō rā e koe, tatau rawa,

wāwāhi rawa i ngā maramara,

ka haea anō e koe ōu ū.

Nāku hoki te kōrero, e ai tā te Ariki, tā Ihowā.

35 "Inā, ko te kupu tēnei a te Ariki, a Ihowā: Nā, kua wareware nā koe ki ahau, kua makā anō ahau e koe ki muri i tōu tuarā, nā, pīkaua anō e koe tōu hē me ōu moepuku."

36 I mea anō a Ihowā ki ahau: "E te tama a te tangata, e whakawā rānei koe i a Ohora rāua ko Ohoripa? Whakakitea ā rāua mea whakarihariha ki a rāua. 37 Nō te mea kua moepuku rāua, he toto kei ō rāua ringa. Kua moepuku anō rāua ki ā rāua whakapakoko; kua meinga e rāua ā rāua tamariki, āku i whānau nei i roto i a rāua kia tika i roto i te ahi, ki aua whakapakoko, pau tonu atu. 38 Ko tēnei anō tā rāua i mea ai ki ahau; i taua rā kotahi, whakapokea iho e rāua tōku wāhi tapu, ko āku hāpati kua noa i a rāua. 39 I tā rāua patunga hoki i ā rāua tamariki hei mea ki ā rāua whakapakoko, haere ana rāua i taua rā anō ki tōku wāhi tapu whakanoa ai. Nā, ko tā rāua tēnā i mea ai i roto i tōku whare.

40 "I unga tāngata anō koutou ki te hunga haere mai i tawhiti, he hunga i ungā atu nei he karere ki a rātou. Nā, kua tae mai rātou; mō rātou tāu horoi i a koe, mea rawa i ōu kanohi ki te pukepoto, whakapaipai rawa i a koe ki ngā whakapaipai. 41 Nā, noho ana koe, he mea korōria te moenga, i tōna taha ko te tēpu rite rawa; i runga ko tāku whakakakara, ko tāku hinu, he mea whakatakoto nāu.

42 "Ā, i taua wahine te ngē o te mano tini e noho mākohakoha ana; ā, i kawea mai i roto i te mano o te tāngata ngā haurangi o te koraha; ā, nā rātou i whakanoho he poroporo ki ō rāua ringa, he karauna ātaahua ki ō rāua māhunga. 43 Kātahi ahau ka mea mō taua wahine kua rūruhi nei e moepuku ana. ‘E moepuku anō rānei rātou ki a ia, me ia anō ki a rātou?’ 44 Heoi, haere ana rātou ki a ia, he pērā i tā rātou haere ki te wahine moepuku; pērā tonu tā rātou haere ki a Ohora, ki a Ohoripa, ki ngā wāhine hē. 45 Nā, ko ngā tāngata tika, mā rātou rāua e whakawā, he whakawā i ngā wāhine moepuku, he whakawā i ngā wāhine whakaheke toto; he wāhine moepuku hoki rāua, he toto kei ō rāua ringa.

46 "Ko te kupu hoki tēnei a te Ariki, a Ihowā: Ka kawea mai e ahau he hui ki a rāua, ā, ka meinga rāua e ahau kia makamaka, kia pāhuatia. 47 Ā, ka ākina rāua e te hui ki te kōhatu, ka tapahia ki ā rātou hoari; ka whakamatea ā rāua tama ā rāua tamāhine, ka tahuna anō ō rāua whare ki te ahi.

48 "Heoi, ka meinga e ahau te pūremu kia mutu i te whenua; kia ako ai ngā wāhine katoa kia kaua ā rātou mahi e rite ki ō kōrua hē. 49 Ka hoatu anō e rātou ngā utu o tō kōrua hē ki a kōrua, ā, ka pīkaua e kōrua ngā hara o ā kōrua whakapakoko; ka mōhio ko te Ariki ahau, ko Ihowā."