1 And the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, there were two women daughters of one mother.
2 Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.
3 And they fornicated in Ægypt, in their youth they fornicated: there were their breasts pressed, and the paps of their virginity were broken.
3 And they committed fornication in Egypt, in their youth they committed fornication: there were their breasts pressed down, and the teats of their virginity were bruised.
4 And their names Oolla the elder, and Ooliba her younger sister: and I had them, & they bare sons, and daughters. Moreover their names, Samaria Oolla, and Jerusalem Ooliba.
4 And their names were Oolla the elder, and Ooliba her younger sister: and I took them, and they bore sons and daughters. Now for their names, Samaria is Oolla, and Jerusalem is Ooliba.
5 Oolla therefore fornicated over me, and was mad upon her lovers, upon the Assyrians approaching,
5 And Oolla committed fornication against me, and doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians that came to her,
6 clothed with hyacinth, the princes, and the magistrates, all the young men of concupiscences, all the horsemen, the riders of horses.
6 Who were clothed with blue, princes, and rulers, beautiful youths, all horsemen, mounted upon horses.
7 And she gave her fornications upon them all the chosen children of the Assyrians: and in all, on whom she was mad, in their uncleanness she was polluted.
7 And she committed her fornications with those chosen men, all sons of the Assyrians: and she defiled herself with the uncleanness of all them on whom she doted.
8 Moreover also her fornications, which she had made in Ægypt she left not: for they also slept with her in her youth, and they brake the breasts of her virginity, and poured out their fornication upon her.
8 Moreover also she did not forsake her fornications which she had committed in Egypt: for they also lay with her in her youth, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured out their fornication upon her.
9 Therefore have I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the children of Assur, upon whose lust she was mad.
9 Therefore have I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the sons of the Assyrians, upon whose lust she doted.
10 They discovered her ignominy, took her sons and daughters, and her they killed with the sword: and they were made notorious women, and they did judgements in her.
10 ¹They discovered her disgrace, took away her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword: and they became infamous women, and they executed judgments in her.
11 Which when her sister Ooliba had seen, she was mad with lust more than she: and she gave impudently her fornication above the fornication of her sister
11 And when her sister Ooliba saw this, she was mad with lust more than she: and she carried her fornication beyond the fornication of her sister.
12 to the children of the Assyrians, to the princes, and magistrates coming to her clothed with party clothing, to the horsemen that were carried on horses, and to young men all of goodly beauty.
12 Impudently prostituting herself to the children of the Assyrians, the princes, and rulers that came to her, clothed with divers colors, to the horsemen that rode upon horses, and to young men all of great beauty.
13 And I saw that she was polluted, both one way.
13 And I saw that she was defiled, and that they both took one way.
14 And she increased her fornications: and when she had seen men painted in a wall, the images of the Chaldees expressed in colours,
14 And she increased her fornications: and when she had seen men painted on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans set forth in colors,
15 and girded with girdles about their reins, and dyed turbans on their heads, the form of all the dukes, the similitude of the children of Babylon, and of the land of the Chaldees, wherein they were born,
15 And girded with girdles about their reins, and with dyed turbans on their heads, the resemblance of all the captains, the likeness of the sons of Babylon, and of the land of the Chaldeans wherein they were born,
16 she was mad upon them with the concupiscence of her eyes, & she sent messengers to them into Chaldee.
16 She doted upon them with the lust of her eyes, and she sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
17 And when the children of Babylon were come to her unto the bed of paps, they polluted her with their fornications, and she was polluted of them, and her soul was filled of them.
17 And when the sons of Babylon were come to her to the bed of love, they defiled her with their fornications, and she was polluted by them, and her soul was glutted with them.
18 She revealed also her fornications, & discovered her ignominy: & my soul departed from her, as my soul departed from her sister.
18 And she discovered her fornications, and discovered her disgrace: and my soul was alienated from her, as my soul was alienated from her sister.
19 For she hath multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her youth, in which she fornicated in the land of Ægypt.
19 For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her youth, in which she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
20 And she was mad for lust upon the lying with them, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses: and as the flux of horses, their flux.
20 And she was mad with lust after lying with them whose flesh is as the flesh of asses: and whose issue as the issue of horses.
21 And thou hast visited the wickedness of thy youth when thy breasts were pressed in Ægypt, & the paps of thy virginity broken.
21 And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when thy breasts were pressed in Egypt, and the paps of thy virginity broken.
22 Therefore Ooliba, thus saith our Lord God: Behold Iwill raise up all thy lovers against thee, of whom thy soul is filled: & I will gather them together against thee round about,
22 Therefore, Ooliba, thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will raise up against thee all thy lovers with whom thy soul hath been glutted: and I will gather them together against thee round about.
23 the children of Babylon, & all the Chaldees, the nobles, & the tyrants, & princes, all the children of the Assyrians, the young men of goodly beauty, all the captains, & magistrates, the princes of princes, & the renowned riders of horses.
23 The children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, the nobles, and the kings, and princes, all the sons of the Assyrians, beautiful young men, all the captains, and rulers, the princes of princes, and the renowned horsemen.
24 And they shall come upon thee well appointed with chariot, & wheel, a multitude of peoples: with brigantine, and buckler, and helmet they shall be armed against thee on every side: and I will give judgement before them, and they shall judge thee by their judgements.
24 And they shall come upon thee well appointed with chariot and wheel, a multitude of people: they shall be armed against thee on every side with breastplate, and buckler, and helmet: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee by their judgments.
25 And I will put my zeal in thee, which they exercise with thee in fury: thy nose and thine ears they shall cut off: & the things that remain shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons, and thy daughters, and thy very last thing shall be devoured with fire.
25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, which they shall execute upon thee with fury: they shall cut off thy nose and thy ears: and what remains shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons, and thy daughters, and thy residue shall be devoured by fire.
26 And they shall strip thee of thy garments, and shall take away the vessels of thy glory.
26 And they shall strip thee of thy garments, and take away the instruments of thy glory.
27 And I will make thy wickedness to cease out of thee, and thy fornication out of the Land of Ægypt: neither shalt thou lift up thine eyes to them, & Ægypt thou shalt remember no more.
27 And I will put an end to thy wickedness in thee, and thy fornication brought out of the land of Egypt: neither shalt thou lift up thy eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.
28 Because thus saith our Lord God: Behold I will deliver thee into the hands of them, whom thou hatest, into their hands, of whom thy soul is filled.
28 For thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will deliver thee into the hands of them whom thou hatest, into their hands with whom thy soul hath been glutted.
29 And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and they shall take away all thy labours, & shall let thee go naked, and full of ignominy, and the ignominy of thy fornications shall be revealed, thy wicked deed, and thy fornications.
29 And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and they shall take away all thy labors, and shall let thee go naked, and full of disgrace, and the disgrace of thy fornication shall be discovered, thy wickedness, and thy fornications.
30 They have done these things to thee, because thou hast fornicated after the Nations, among which thou wast polluted in their idols.
30 They have done these things to thee, because thou hast played the harlot with the nations among which thou wast defiled with their idols.
31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister, and I will give her cup in thy hand.
31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister and I will give her cup into thy hand.
32 Thus saith our Lord God: The cup of thy sister thou shalt drink deep, and wide: thou shalt be into derision & into scorn, which is most capable.
32 Thus saith the Lord God: Thou shalt drink thy sister’s cup, deep and wide: thou shalt be had in derision and scorn, which containeth very much.
33 With drunkenness and sorrow thou shall be replenished: with the cup of pensiveness, and sadness, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness, and sorrow: with the cup of grief and sadness, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
34 And thou shalt drink it, and shalt drink it up even to the dregs, and the fragments thereof thou shalt devour, thou shalt rent thy breasts: because I have spoken, saith our Lord God:
34 And thou shalt drink it, and shalt drink it up even to the dregs, and thou shalt devour the fragments thereof, thou shalt rend thy breasts: because I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
35 Therefore thus saith our Lord God: Because thou hast forgotten me, and hast cast me off behind thy body, thou also bear thy wickedness, and thy fornications.
35 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast forgotten me, and hast cast me off behind thy back, bear thou also thy wickedness, and thy fornications.
36 And our Lord spake to me, saying: Son of man, doest thou judge Oolla, and Ooliba, and shewest thou them their wicked deeds?
36 And the Lord spoke to me, saying: Son of man, dost thou judge Oolla, and Ooliba, and dost thou declare to them their wicked deeds?
37 because they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols they have fornicated: moreover also their children, whom they begat for me, they have offered unto them to be devoured.
37 Because they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and they have committed fornication with their idols: moreover also their children, whom they bore to me, they have offered to them to be devoured.
38 Yea and they have done this to me. They polluted my sanctuary in that day, & profaned my sabbaths.
38 Yea, and they have done this to me. They polluted my sanctuary on the same day, and profaned my sabbaths.
39 And when they immolated their children to their idols, and went into my sanctuary in that day to pollute it: these things also they did in the midst of my house.
39 And when they sacrificed their children to their idols, and went into my sanctuary the same day to profane it: they did these things even in the midst of my house.
40 They sent to men coming from far, to whom they had sent a messenger: therefore lo they came: to whom thou didst wash thyself, and didst anoint thine eyes about with stibic stone, and wast adorned with women's ornaments.
40 They sent for men coming from afar, to whom they had sent a messenger: and behold they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, and didst paint thy eyes, and wast adorned with women’s ornaments.
41 Thou satest in a very fair bed, and a table was decked before thee: mine incense, and mine ointment thou didst set upon it.
41 Thou sattest on a very fine bed, and a table was decked before thee: whereupon thou didst set my incense, and my ointment.
42 And the voice of a multitude rejoicing was on it: and on the men, that were brought of the multitude of men, and came from the desert, they did put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.
42 And there was in her the voice of a multitude rejoicing: and to some that were brought of the multitude of men, and that came from the desert, they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.
43 And I said to her, that was worn in adulteries: Now will this woman also fornicate in her fornication.
43 And I said to her that was worn out in her adulteries: Now will this woman still continue in her fornication.
44 And they went to her as to an harlot woman: so went they unto Oolla, and Ooliba wicked women.
44 And they went in to her, as to a harlot: so went they in unto Oolla, and Ooliba, wicked women.
45 They therefore are just men: these shall judge them with the judgement of adulteresses, and with the judgement of blood-shedders: because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
45 They therefore are just men: these shall judge them as adulteresses are judged, and as shedders of blood are judged: because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
46 For thus saith our Lord God: Bring a multitude to them, and deliver them into tumult, and into spoil:
46 For thus saith the Lord God: Bring a multitude upon them, and deliver them over to tumult and rapine:
47 and let them be stoned with the stones of peoples, and let them be thrust through with their swords: they shall kill their sons, and daughters, and their houses they shall burn with fire.
47 And let the people stone them with stones, and let them be stabbed with their swords: they shall kill their sons and daughters, and their houses they shall burn with fire.
48 And I will take away the wickedness out of the land, and all women shall learn, not to do according to the wickedness of them.
48 And I will take away wickedness out of the land: and all women shall learn, not to do according to the wickedness of them.
49 And they shall give your wickedness upon you, and the sins of your idols you shall carry: and you shall know that I am the Lord God.
49 And they shall render your wickedness upon you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols: and you shall know that I am the Lord God.