Ezekiel 23:36–49

³⁶The Lord said to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then confront^j them with their detestable practices,^{k 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.^{l 38}They have also done this to me: At that same time they defiled my sanctuary^m and desecrated my Sabbaths.^{n 39}On the very day they sacrificed their children to their idols, they entered my sanctuary and desecrated^o it. That is what they did in my house.^p

⁴⁰“They even sent messengers for men who came from far away,^q and when they arrived you bathed yourself for them, applied eye makeup^r and put on your jewelry.^{s 41}You sat on an elegant couch,^t with a table^u spread before it on which you had placed the incense^v and olive oil that belonged to me.^w

⁴²“The noise of a carefree^x crowd was around her; drunkards^y were brought from the desert along with men from the rabble, and they put bracelets^z on the wrists of the woman and her sister and beautiful crowns on their heads.^{a 43}Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, ‘Now let them use her as a prostitute,^b for that is all she is.’ ⁴⁴And they slept with her. As men sleep with a prostitute, so they slept with those lewd women, Oholah and Oholibah. ⁴⁵But righteous judges will sentence them to the punishment of women who commit adultery and shed blood,^c because they are adulterous and blood is on their hands.^d

⁴⁶“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Bring a mob^e against them and give them over to terror and plunder.^{f 47}The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters^g and burn^h down their houses.ⁱ

⁴⁸“So I will put an end^j to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not imitate you.^{k 49}You will suffer the penalty for your lewdness and bear the consequences of your sins of idolatry.^l Then you will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.^m”