35 “Therefore thus says the Lord God:
‘Because you ahave forgotten Me and bcast Me behind your back,
Therefore you shall bear the penalty
Of your lewdness and your harlotry.’ ”
‘Because you ahave forgotten Me and bcast Me behind your back,
Therefore you shall bear the penalty
Of your lewdness and your harlotry.’ ”
Both Sisters Judged
36 The Lord also said to me: “Son of man, will you ajudge Oholah and Oholibah? Then bdeclare to them their abominations.
37 For they have committed adultery, and ablood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and even sacrificed their sons bwhom they bore to Me, passing them through the fire, to devour them.
38 Moreover they have done this to Me: They have adefiled My sanctuary on the same day and bprofaned 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 athus they have done in the midst of My house.
40 “Furthermore you sent for men to come from afar, ato whom a messenger was sent; and there they came. And you bwashed yourself for them, cpainted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.
41 You sat on a stately acouch, with a table prepared before it, bon which you had set My incense and My oil.
42 The sound of a carefree multitude was with her, and1 Sabeans were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort, who put bracelets on their2 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 ajudge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and bblood is on their hands.
46 “For thus says the Lord God: a‘Bring up an assembly against them, give them up to trouble and plunder.
47 aThe assembly shall stone them with stones and1 execute them with their swords; bthey shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn their houses with fire.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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