³⁶And Yahweh said to me, “Son of man,^w will you judge Oholah and Oholibah and declare their abominable deeds to^x them? ³⁷For they committed adultery, and blood is on their hands, and they committed adultery with their idols, and even their children that they had borne for me—they sacrificed them as food! ³⁸Also they did this to me: they defiled my sanctuary on that day, and they profaned my Sabbaths, ³⁹and when they slaughtered their children for their idols, they came to my sanctuary on that day to profane it. And look, this is what they did in my house!^y ⁴⁰What is worse,^z they sent for men who come^a from a distant place, to whom a messenger was sent to them, and look! They came! Men for whom you bathed and painted your eyes, and you adorned yourself with an ornament. ⁴¹And you sat on a magnificent couch and a table prepared before her,^b and my incense and my olive oil you put on her.^c ⁴²And a sound of a carefree crowd was with it,^d and in addition to these men, a crowd of drunken men^e was brought in^f from the desert,^g and they put bracelets on their arms and a crown of splendor on their heads. ⁴³And I said to^h the one worn out with adulteries, ‘Now they will prostitute her concerning her fornication, even her.’ⁱ ⁴⁴And so they went to her like going to a female^j prostitute; and thus they went to Oholah and to Oholibah, the women of obscene conduct. ⁴⁵But righteous men, they will judge them with the judgment of committing adultery, and with the judgment of shedding blood; for they were committing adultery, and blood was on their hands.”

⁴⁶For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Bring up against them an assembly, and make them as a thing of horror and as plunder. ⁴⁷And an assembly must stone them with stones,^k and they must cut them down. With their swords they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and with fire they shall burn their houses. ⁴⁸And I will cause obscene conduct to cease from the land,^l and all of the women will be warned, and they will not do according to your wickedness. ⁴⁹And they will repay your obscene conduct upon you, and the guilt of your idols you will bear, and you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.

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Footnotes

wOr “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
xOr “for”
yLiterally “thus they did in the midst of house my”
zLiterally “and also for/indeed”
aLiterally “coming”
bLiterally “to the face of her”
cOr “it”
dOr “her”
eA problematic verse; reading according to the reading tradition (Qere)
fLiterally “from an abundance of men being brought in drunken”
gOr “wilderness”
hOr “about”
iOr “that she did”
jOr “a woman”
kHebrew “stone”
lOr “I will put an end to obscene conduct from the land”