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Ezekiel 23:32-48 Modern English Version (MEV)

32. Thus says the Lord God: You shall drink of your sister’s cup,which is deep and wide;you shall be laughed to scorn and held in derision;it contains much.

33. You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,the cup of horror and desolation,the cup of your sister Samaria.

34. You shall drink it and drain it,then you shall gnaw at its fragmentsand tear off your own breasts;for I have spoken, says the Lord God.

35. Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, now bear the punishment of your lewdness and your harlotries.

36. The Lord moreover said to me: Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.

37. For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. Thus with their idols they have committed adultery and have also caused their sons whom they bore to Me to pass through the fire for them as food.

38. Moreover they have done this to Me: They have defiled My sanctuary in the same day and have profaned My Sabbaths.

39. For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into My sanctuary to profane it. And thus they have done in the midst of My house.

40. Furthermore, they have even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and they came. For them you washed yourself, painted your eyes, and decked yourself with ornaments.

41. And you sat on a stately couch with a table prepared before it on which you had set My incense and My oil.

42. A sound of a multitude at ease was with her, and drunkards were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort. And they put bracelets on the hands of the women and beautiful crowns on their heads.

43. Then I said to her who was worn out by adulteries, “Will they now commit harlotries with her when she is so?”

44. Yet they went in to her as they go in to a woman who plays the harlot. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.

45. But righteous men shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.

46. For thus says the Lord God: Bring up a company against them and give them over to terror and devastation.

47. The company shall stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords. They shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

48. Thus I will cause lewdness to cease from the land, that all women may be warned and not commit lewdness as you have done.

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