Ezekiel 23:5-21

Ezekiel 23:5-21

[5] And Aholah  played the harlot  when she was mine;  and she doted  on her lovers,  on the Assyrians  her neighbours,  [6] Which were clothed  with blue,  captains  and rulers,  all of them desirable  young men,  horsemen  riding  upon horses.  [7] Thus she committed  her whoredoms  with them, with all them that were the chosen  men  of Assyria,  and with all on whom she doted:  with all their idols  she defiled  [8] Neither left  she her whoredoms  brought from Egypt:  for in her youth  they lay  with her, and they bruised  the breasts  of her virginity,  and poured  their whoredom  [9] Wherefore I have delivered  her into the hand  of her lovers,  into the hand  of the Assyrians,  upon whom she doted.  [10] These discovered  her nakedness:  they took  her sons  and her daughters,  and slew  her with the sword:  and she became famous  among women;  for they had executed  judgment  upon her. [11] And when her sister  Aholibah  saw  this, she was more corrupt  in her inordinate love  than she, and in her whoredoms  more than her sister  in her whoredoms.  [12] She doted  upon the Assyrians  her neighbours,  captains  and rulers  clothed  most gorgeously,  horsemen  riding  upon horses,  all of them desirable  young men.  [13] Then I saw  that she was defiled,  that they took both  one  way,  [14] And that she increased  her whoredoms:  for when she saw  pourtrayed  upon the wall,  the images  of the Chaldeans  pourtrayed  with vermilion,  [15] Girded  with girdles  upon their loins,  exceeding  in dyed attire  upon their heads,  all of them princes  to look to,  after the manner  of the Babylonians  of Chaldea,  the land  of their nativity:  [16] And as soon as she saw  them with her eyes,  she doted  upon them, and sent  messengers  unto them into Chaldea.  [17] And the Babylonians  came  to her into the bed  of love,  and they defiled  her with their whoredom,  and she was polluted  with them, and her mind  was alienated  from them. [18] So she discovered  her whoredoms,  and discovered  her nakedness:  then my mind  was alienated  from her, like as my mind  was alienated  from her sister.  [19] Yet she multiplied  her whoredoms,  in calling to remembrance  the days  of her youth,  wherein she had played the harlot  in the land  of Egypt.  [20] For she doted  upon their paramours,  whose flesh  of asses,  and whose issue  of horses.  [21] Thus thou calledst to remembrance  the lewdness  of thy youth,  in bruising  thy teats  by the Egyptians  for the paps  of thy youth.