Ezekiel 23:36-48

New King James Version

Both Sisters Judged

³⁶ The Lord also said to me: “Son of man, will you ^(A)judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then ^(B)declare to them their abominations. ³⁷ For they have committed adultery, and ^(C)blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and even sacrificed their sons ^(D)whom they bore to Me, passing them through the fire, to devour them. ³⁸ Moreover they have done this to Me: They have ^(E)defiled My sanctuary on the same day and ^(F)profaned My Sabbaths. ³⁹ For after they had slain their children for their idols, on the same day they came into My sanctuary to profane it; and indeed ^(G)thus they have done in the midst of My house.

⁴⁰ “Furthermore you sent for men to come from afar, ^(H)to whom a messenger was sent; and there they came. And you ^(I)washed yourself for them, ^(J)painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments. ⁴¹ You sat on a stately ^(K)couch, with a table prepared before it, ^(L)on which you had set My incense and My oil. ⁴² The sound of a carefree multitude was with her, and ^[a]Sabeans were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort, who put bracelets on their ^[b]wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads. ⁴³ Then I said concerning her who had grown old in adulteries, ‘Will they commit harlotry with her now, and she with them?’ ⁴⁴ Yet they went in to her, as men go in to a woman who plays the harlot; thus they went in to Oholah and Oholibah, the lewd women. ⁴⁵ But righteous men will ^(M)judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and ^(N)blood is on their hands.

⁴⁶ “For thus says the Lord God: ^(O)‘Bring up an assembly against them, give them up to trouble and plunder. ^47 (P)The assembly shall stone them with stones and ^[c]execute them with their swords; ^(Q)they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn their houses with fire. ⁴⁸ Thus ^(R)I will cause lewdness to cease from the land, ^(S)that all women may be taught not to practice your lewdness.