¹ 耶和华的话又临到我说：

² 人子啊，有两个女子，是一母所生，

³ 他们在埃及行邪淫，在幼年时行邪淫。他们在那里作处女的时候，有人拥抱他们的怀，抚摸他们的乳。

⁴ 他们的名字，姊姊名叫阿荷拉，妹妹名叫阿荷利巴。他们都归於我，生了儿女。论到他们的名字，阿荷拉就是撒玛利亚，阿荷利巴就是耶路撒冷。

⁵ 阿荷拉归我之後行邪淫，贪恋所爱的人，就是他的邻邦亚述人。

⁶ 这些人都穿蓝衣，作省长、副省长，都骑着马，是可爱的少年人。

⁷ 阿荷拉就与亚述人中最美的男子放纵淫行，他因所恋爱之人的一切偶像，玷污自己。

⁸ 自从在埃及的时候，他就没有离开淫乱，因为他年幼作处女的时候，埃及人与他行淫，抚摸他的乳，纵欲与他行淫。

⁹ 因此，我将他交在他所爱的人手中，就是他所恋爱的亚述人手中。

¹⁰ 他们就露了他的下体，掳掠他的儿女，用刀杀了他，使他在妇女中留下臭名，因他们向他施行审判。

¹¹ 他妹妹阿荷利巴虽然看见了，却还贪恋，比他姊姊更丑；行淫乱比他姊姊更多。

¹² 他贪恋邻邦的亚述人，就是穿极华美的衣服，骑着马的省长、副省长，都是可爱的少年人。

¹³ 我看见他被玷污了，他姊妹二人同行一路。

¹⁴ 阿荷利巴又加增淫行，因他看见人像画在墙上，就是用丹色所画迦勒底人的像，

¹⁵ 腰间系着带子，头上有下垂的裹头巾，都是军长的形状，仿照巴比伦人的形像；他们的故土就是迦勒底。

¹⁶ 阿荷利巴一看见就贪恋他们，打发使者往迦勒底去见他们。

¹⁷ 巴比伦人就来登他爱情的床，与他行淫玷污他。他被玷污，随後心里与他们生疏。

¹⁸ 这样，他显露淫行，又显露下体；我心就与他生疏，像先前与他姊姊生疏一样。

¹⁹ 他还加增他的淫行，追念他幼年在埃及地行邪淫的日子，

²⁰ 贪恋情人身壮精足，如驴如马。

²¹ 这样，你就想起你幼年的淫行。那时，埃及人拥抱你的怀，抚摸你的乳。

²² 阿荷利巴啊，主耶和华如此说：我必激动你先爱而後生疏的人来攻击你。我必使他们来，在你四围攻击你。

²³ 所来的就是巴比伦人、迦勒底的众人、比割人、书亚人、哥亚人，同着他们的还有亚述众人，乃是作省长、副省长、作军长有名声的，都骑着马，是可爱的少年人。

²⁴ 他们必带兵器、战车、辎重车，率领大众来攻击你。他们要拿大小盾牌，顶盔摆阵，在你四围攻击你。我要将审判的事交给他们，他们必按着自己的条例审判你。

²⁵ 我必以忌恨攻击你；他们必以忿怒办你。他们必割去你的鼻子和耳朵；你遗留（或译：馀剩；下同）的人必倒在刀下。他们必掳去你的儿女；你所遗留的必被火焚烧。

²⁶ 他们必剥去你的衣服，夺取你华美的宝器。

²⁷ 这样，我必使你的淫行和你从埃及地染来的淫乱止息了，使你不再仰望亚述，也不再追念埃及。

²⁸ 主耶和华如此说：我必将你交在你所恨恶的人手中，就是你心与他生疏的人手中。

²⁹ 他们必以恨恶办你，夺取你一切劳碌得来的，留下你赤身露体。你淫乱的下体，连你的淫行，带你的淫乱，都被显露。

³⁰ 人必向你行这些事；因为你随从外邦人行邪淫，被他们的偶像玷污了。

³¹ 你走了你姊姊所走的路，所以我必将他的杯交在你手中。

³² 主耶和华如此说：你必喝你姊姊所喝的杯；那杯又深又广，盛得甚多，使你被人嗤笑讥刺。

³³ 你必酩酊大醉，满有愁苦，喝乾你姊姊撒玛利亚的杯，就是令人惊骇凄凉的杯。

³⁴ 你必喝这杯，以致喝尽。杯破又龈杯片，撕裂自己的乳；因为这事我曾说过。这是主耶和华说的。

³⁵ 主耶和华如此说：因你忘记我，将我丢在背後，所以你要担当你淫行和淫乱的报应。

³⁶ 耶和华又对我说：人子啊，你要审问阿荷拉与阿荷利巴麽？当指出他们所行可憎的事。

³⁷ 他们行淫，手中有杀人的血，又与偶像行淫，并使他们为我所生的儿女经火烧给偶像。

³⁸ 此外，他们还有向我所行的，就是同日玷污我的圣所，干犯我的安息日。

³⁹ 他们杀了儿女献与偶像，当天又入我的圣所，将圣所亵渎了。他们在我殿中所行的乃是如此。

⁴⁰ 况且你们二妇打发使者去请远方人。使者到他们那里，他们就来了。你们为他们沐浴己身，粉饰眼目，佩戴妆饰，

⁴¹ 坐在华美的床上，前面摆设桌案，将我的香料膏油摆在其上。

⁴² 在那里有群众安逸欢乐的声音，并有粗俗的人和酒徒从旷野同来，把镯子戴在二妇的手上，把华冠戴在他们的头上。

⁴³ 我论这行淫衰老的妇人说：现在人还要与他行淫，他也要与人行淫。

⁴⁴ 人与阿荷拉，并阿荷利巴二淫妇苟合，好像与妓女苟合。

⁴⁵ 必有义人，照审判淫妇和流人血的妇人之例，审判他们；因为他们是淫妇，手中有杀人的血。

⁴⁶ 主耶和华如此说：我必使多人来攻击他们，使他们抛来抛去，被人抢夺。

⁴⁷ 这些人必用石头打死他们，用刀剑杀害他们，又杀戮他们的儿女，用火焚烧他们的房屋。

⁴⁸ 这样，我必使淫行从境内止息，好叫一切妇人都受警戒，不效法你们的淫行。

⁴⁹ 人必照着你们的淫行报应你们；你们要担当拜偶像的罪，就知道我是主耶和华。

¹ The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

² Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop [your word] toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel;

³ and tell the land of Israel, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.

⁴ Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:

⁵ and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.

⁶ Sigh therefore, you son of man; with the breaking of your thighs and with bitterness you will sigh before their eyes.

⁷ It shall be, when they tell you, Why do you sigh? that you shall say, Because of the news, for it comes; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.

⁸ The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

⁹ Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh: say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished;

¹⁰ it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it condemns every tree.

¹¹ It is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened, yes, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the killer.

¹² Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people, it is on all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people; strike therefore on your thigh.

¹³ For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that condemns shall be no more? says the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁴ You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one who is deadly wounded, which enters into their rooms.

¹⁵ I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: ah! it is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.

¹⁶ Gather yourselves together, go to the right, set yourselves in array, go to the left, wherever your face is set.

¹⁷ I will also strike my hands together, and I will cause my wrath to rest: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.

¹⁸ The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying,

¹⁹ Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; they both shall come forth out of one land: and mark out a place, mark it out at the head of the way to the city.

²⁰ You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

²¹ For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows back and forth, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.

²² In his right hand was the divination [for] Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.

²³ It shall be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken.

²⁴ Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you have come to memory, you shall be taken with the hand.

²⁵ You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,

²⁶ thus says the Lord Yahweh: Remove the turban, and take off the crown; this [shall be] no more the same; exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high.

²⁷ I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: this also shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it [him].

²⁸ You, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;

²⁹ while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

³⁰ Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you.

³¹ I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skillful to destroy.

³² You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be remembered no more: for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.