28. This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “I will hand you over to people you hate and are disgusted with.
29. And because they hate you, they will take away everything you have worked for and leave you stripped naked, exposed like a prostitute. Your lust and your prostitution
30. have brought this on you. You were a prostitute for the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
31. You followed in your sister's footsteps, and so I will give you the same cup of punishment to drink.”
32. The Sovereign Lord says,“You will drink from your sister's cup;it is large and deep.Everyone will scorn and mock you;the cup is full.
33. It will make you miserable and drunk,that cup of fear and ruin,your sister Samaria's cup.
34. You will drink and drain it dry,and with its broken piecestear your breast.I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken.”
35. Now this is what the Sovereign Lord is saying: “Because you forgot me and turned your back on me, you will suffer for your lust and your prostitution.”
36. The Lord said to me, “Mortal man, are you ready to judge Oholah and Oholibah? Accuse them of the disgusting things they have done.
37. They have committed adultery and murder — adultery with idols and murder of the children they bore me. They sacrificed my children to their idols.
38. And that is not all they did. They profaned my Temple and broke the Sabbath, which I had established.
39. The very day that they killed my children as sacrifices to idols, they came to my Temple and profaned it!
40. “Again and again they sent messengers to invite men to come from a great distance, and the men came. The two sisters would bathe and put on eye shadow and jewellery.
41. They would sit on a beautiful couch, and in front of them they would have a table covered with good things, including the incense and the olive oil that I had given them.
42. The sound of a carefree crowd could be heard, a group of men brought in from the desert. They put bracelets on the women's arms and beautiful crowns on their heads.
43. And I said to myself that they were using as a prostitute a woman worn out by adultery.
44. They went back to these prostitutes again and again. They went back to Oholah and Oholibah, those immoral women.
45. Righteous men will condemn them on the charge of adultery and murder, because they practise adultery and their hands are stained with blood.”
46. This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “Bring a mob to terrorize them and rob them.
47. Let the mob stone them and attack them with swords, kill their children, and burn down their houses.