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Ezechiele 16

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1 La parola dell’Eterno mi fu ancora rivolta in questi termini:

2 "Figliuol d’uomo, fa’ conoscere a Gerusalemme le sue abominazioni,

3 e di’: Così parla il Signore, l’Eterno, a Gerusalemme: Per la tua origine e per la tua nascita sei del paese del Cananeo; tuo padre era un Amoreo, tua madre una Hittea.

4 Quanto alla tua nascita, il giorno che nascesti l’ombelico non ti fu tagliato, non fosti lavata con acqua per nettarti, non fosti sfregata con sale, né fosti fasciata.

5 Nessuno ebbe sguardi di pietà per te; per farti una sola di queste cose, avendo compassione di te, ma fosti gettata nell’aperta campagna il giorno che nascesti, pel disprezzo che si aveva di te.

6 E io ti passai accanto, vidi che ti dibattevi nel sangue, e ti dissi: Vivi, tu che sei nel sangue! E ti ripetei: Vivi, tu che sei nel sangue!

7 Io ti farò moltiplicare per miriadi, come il germe dei campi. E tu ti sviluppasti, crescesti, giungesti al colmo della bellezza, il tuo seno si formò, la tua capigliatura crebbe abbondante, ma tu eri nuda e scoperta.

8 Io ti passai accanto, ti guardai, ed ecco il tuo tempo era giunto: il tempo degli amori; io stesi su di te il lembo della mia veste e copersi la tua nudità; ti feci un giuramento, fermai un patto con te, dice il Signore, l’Eterno, e tu fosti mia.

9 Ti lavai con acqua, ti ripulii del sangue che avevi addosso, e ti unsi con olio.

10 Ti misi delle vesti ricamate, de’ calzari di pelle di tasso, ti cinsi il capo di lino fino, ti ricopersi di seta.

11 Ti fornii d’ornamenti, ti misi dei braccialetti ai polsi, e una collana al collo.

12 Ti misi un anello al naso, dei pendenti agli orecchi, e una magnifica corona in capo.

13 Così fosti adorna d’oro e d’argento, e fosti vestita di lino fino, di seta e di ricami; e tu mangiasti fior di farina, miele e olio; diventasti sommamente bella, e giungesti fino a regnare.

14 E la tua fama si sparse fra le nazioni, per la tua bellezza; poich’essa era perfetta, avendoti io coperta della mia magnificenza, dice il Signore, l’Eterno.

15 Ma tu confidasti nella tua bellezza, e ti prostituisti in grazie della tua fama, e prodigasti le tue prostituzioni ad ogni passante, a chi voleva.

16 Tu prendesti delle tue vesti, ti facesti degli alti luoghi parati di vari colori, e quivi ti prostituisti: cose tali, che non ne avvennero mai, e non ne avverranno più.

17 Prendesti pure i tuoi bei gioielli fatti del mio oro e del mio argento, che io t’avevo dati, te ne facesti delle immagini d’uomo, e ad esse ti prostituisti;

18 e prendeste le tue vesti ricamate e ne ricopristi quelle immagini, dinanzi alle quali tu ponesti il mio olio e il mio profumo.

19 Parimenti il mio pane che t’avevo dato, il fior di farina, l’olio e il miele con cui ti nutrivo, tu li ponesti davanti a loro, come un profumo di soave odore. Questo si fece! dice il Signore, l’Eterno.

20 Prendesti inoltre i tuoi figliuoli e le tue figliuole che mi avevi partoriti, e li offristi loro in sacrificio, perché li divorassero. Non bastavan esse le tue prostituzioni,

21 perché tu avessi anche a scannare i miei figliuoli, e a darli loro facendoli passare per il fuoco?

22 E in mezzo a tutte le tue abominazioni e alle tue prostituzioni, non ti sei ricordata de’ giorni della tua giovinezza, quand’eri nuda, scoperta, e ti dibattevi nel sangue.

23 Ora dopo tutta la tua malvagità guai! guai a te! dice il Signore, l’Eterno,

24 ti sei costruita un bordello, e ti sei fatto un alto luogo in ogni piazza pubblica:

25 hai costruito un alto luogo a ogni capo di strada, hai reso abominevole la tua bellezza, ti sei offerta ad ogni passante, ed hai moltiplicato le tue prostituzioni.

26 Ti sei pure prostituita agli Egiziani, tuoi vicini dalle membra vigorose, e hai moltiplicato le tue prostituzioni per provocarmi ad ira.

27 Perciò, ecco, io ho steso la mia mano contro di te, ho diminuito la provvisione che ti avevo fissata, e t’ho abbandonata in balìa delle figliuole dei Filistei, che t’odiano e hanno vergogna della tua condotta scellerata.

28 Non sazia ancora, ti sei pure prostituita agli Assiri; ti sei prostituita a loro; e neppure allora sei stata sazia;

29 e hai moltiplicato le tue prostituzioni col paese di Canaan fino in Caldea, e neppure con questo sei stata sazia.

30 Com’è vile il tuo cuore, dice il Signore, l’Eterno, a ridurti a fare tutte queste cose, da sfacciata prostituta!

31 Quando ti costruivi il bordello a ogni capo di strada e ti facevi gli alti luoghi in ogni piazza pubblica, tu non eri come una prostituta, giacché sprezzavi il salario,

32 ma come una donna adultera, che riceve gli stranieri invece del suo marito.

33 A tutte le prostitute si dànno dei regali: ma tu hai fatto de’ regali a tutti i tuoi amanti, e li hai sedotti con de’ doni, perché venissero da te, da tutte le parti, per le tue prostituzioni.

34 Con te, nelle tue prostituzioni, è avvenuto il contrario delle altre donne; giacché non eri tu la sollecitata; in quanto tu pagavi, invece d’esser pagata, facevi il contrario delle altre.

35 Perciò, o prostituta, ascolta la parola dell’Eterno.

36 Così parla il Signore, l’Eterno: Poiché il tuo denaro è stato dissipato e la tua nudità è stata scoperta nelle tue prostituzioni coi tuoi amanti, e a motivi di tutti i tuoi idoli abominevoli, e a cagione del sangue dei tuoi figliuoli che hai dato loro,

37 ecco, io radunerò tutti i tuoi amanti ai quali ti sei resa gradita, e tutti quelli che hai amati insieme a quelli che hai odiati; li radunerò da tutte le parti contro di te, e scoprirò davanti a loro la tua nudità, ed essi vedranno tutta la tua nudità.

38 Io ti giudicherò alla stregua delle donne che commettono adulterio e spandono il sangue, e farò che il tuo sangue sia sparso dal furore e dalla gelosia.

39 E ti darò nelle loro mani, ed essi abbatteranno il tuo bordello, distruggeranno i tuoi alti luoghi, ti spoglieranno delle tue vesti, ti prenderanno i bei gioielli, e ti lasceranno nuda e scoperta;

40 e faranno salire contro di te una folla, e ti lapideranno e ti trafiggeranno con le loro spade;

41 daranno alle fiamme le tue case, faranno giustizia di te nel cospetto di molte donne, e io ti farò cessare dal far la prostituta, e tu non pagherai più nessuno.

42 Così io sfogherò il mio furore su di te, e la mia gelosia di stornerà da te; m’acqueterò, e non sarò più adirato.

43 Poiché tu non ti sei ricordata dei giorni della tua giovinezza e m’hai provocato ad ira con tutte queste cose, ecco, anch’io ti farò ricadere sul capo la tua condotta, dice il Signore, l’Eterno, e tu non aggiungerai altri delitti a tutte le tue abominazioni.

44 Ecco, tutti quelli che usano proverbi faranno di te un proverbio, e diranno: Quale la madre, tale la figlia.

45 Tu sei figliuola di tua madre, ch’ebbe a sdegno il suo marito e i suoi figliuoli, e sei sorella delle tue sorelle, ch’ebbero a sdegno i loro mariti e i loro figliuoli. Vostra madre era una Hittea, e vostro padre un Amoreo.

46 La tua sorella maggiore, che ti sta a sinistra, è Samaria, con le sue figliuole; e la tua sorella minore, che ti sta a destra, è Sodoma, con le sue figliuole.

47 E tu, non soltanto hai camminato nelle loro vie e commesso le stesse loro abominazioni; era troppo poco; ma in tutte le tue vie ti sei corrotta più di loro.

48 Com’è vero ch’io vivo, dice il Signore, l’Eterno, Sodoma, la tua sorella, e le sue figliuole, non hanno fatto quel che avete fatto tu e le figliuole tue.

49 Ecco, questa fu l’iniquità di Sodoma, tua sorella: lei e le sue figliuole vivevano nell’orgoglio, nell’abbondanza del pane, e nell’ozio indolente; ma non sostenevano la mano dell’afflitto e del povero.

50 Erano altezzose, e commettevano abominazioni nel mio cospetto; perciò le feci sparire, quando vidi ciò.

51 E Samaria non ha commesso la metà de’ tuoi peccati; tu hai moltiplicato le tue abominazioni più che l’una e l’altra, e hai giustificato le tue sorelle, con tutte le abominazioni che hai commesse.

52 Anche tu porta il vituperio che hai inflitto alle tue sorelle! Coi tuoi peccati tu ti sei resa più abominevole di loro, ed esse son più giuste di te; tu pure dunque, vergognati e porta il tuo vituperio, poiché tu hai giustificato le tue sorelle!

53 Io farò tornare dalla cattività quelli che là si trovano di Sodoma e delle sue figliuole, quelli di Samaria e delle sue figliuole e quelli de’ tuoi che sono in mezzo ad essi,

54 affinché tu porti il tuo vituperio, che tu senta l’onta di tutto quello che hai fatto, e sii così loro di conforto.

55 La tua sorella Sodoma e le sue figliuole torneranno nella loro condizione di prima, Samaria e le sue figliuole torneranno nella loro condizione di prima, e tu e le tue figliuole tornerete nella vostra condizione di prima.

56 Sodoma, la tua sorella, non era neppur mentovata dalla tua bocca, ne’ giorni della tua superbia,

57 prima che la tua malvagità fosse messa a nudo, come avvenne quando fosti oltraggiata dalla figliuole della Siria e da tutti i paesi circonvicini, dalle figliuole dei Filistei, che t’insultavano da tutte le parti.

58 Tu porti alla tua volta il peso della tua scelleratezza e delle tue abominazioni, dice l’Eterno.

59 Poiché, così parla il Signore, l’Eterno: Io farò a te come hai fatto tu, che hai sprezzato il giuramento, infrangendo il patto.

60 Nondimeno io mi ricorderò del patto che fermai teco nei giorni della tua giovinezza, e stabilirò per te un patto eterno.

61 E tu ti ricorderai della tua condotta, e ne avrai vergogna, quando riceverai le tue sorelle, quelle che son più grandi e quelle che son più piccole di te, e io te le darò per figliuole, ma non in virtù del tuo patto.

62 E io fermerò il mio patto con te, e tu conoscerai che io sono l’Eterno,

63 affinché tu ricordi, e tu arrossisca, e tu non possa più aprir bocca dalla vergogna, quand’io t’avrò perdonato tutto quello che hai fatto, dice il Signore, l’Eterno".

   

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Doctrine of the Lord #64

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64. Jerusalem, in the Word, means the church in respect to doctrine, because the Temple, the Altar, the offering of sacrifices, thus Divine worship itself were there, in the land of Canaan, and nowhere else. The three annual feasts were therefore also celebrated there, and every male throughout the land was commanded to go to them. For that reason Jerusalem symbolizes the church in respect to its worship, and so also the church in respect to its doctrine. For worship is prescribed in doctrine, and is conducted in accordance with it. In addition, the Lord was active in Jerusalem and taught in its Temple, and afterward glorified His humanity there.

Furthermore, in the Word in its spiritual sense a city symbolizes doctrine. The Holy City therefore symbolizes a doctrine of Divine truth from the Lord. 1

[2] That Jerusalem means the church in respect to its doctrine is apparent also from other passages in the Word. For example, from the following:

In Isaiah:

For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness goes forth as a radiance, and her salvation as a burning lamp. Then the nations shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of Jehovah will utter. You shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.... ...Jehovah will be well pleased by you, and your land shall be married.... Behold, your salvation is coming; behold, His reward is with Him.... And they shall call them a holy people, the redeemed of Jehovah; and you shall be called a city sought, not forsaken. (Isaiah 62:1-4, 11-12)

This whole chapter deals with the Lord’s advent and a new church to be established by Him. The new church is the one meant by Jerusalem, which will be called “by a new name which the mouth of Jehovah will utter, ” which will be “a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of God, ” by which Jehovah will be “well pleased, ” and which will be called “a city sought, not forsaken.”

This cannot mean the Jerusalem inhabited by Jews when the Lord came into the world, for it was altogether of an opposite character. Rather it deserved to have been called Sodom, as it is in fact called in Revelation 11:8, Isaiah 3:9, Jeremiah 23:14, and Ezekiel 16:46, 48.

[3] Elsewhere in Isaiah:

...behold, I create a new heaven and a new earth; the former shall not be remembered.... ...be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; ...behold, I will create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. I will rejoice over Jerusalem, and be glad over My people.... (Then) the wolf and the lamb shall feed together.... They shall not do harm...in all My holy mountain.... (Isaiah 65:17-19, 25)

The subject in this chapter as well is the Lord’s advent and the church that He will establish — a church that was not established among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, but among surrounding peoples. Consequently it is this church that is meant by Jerusalem, which will be for the Lord a rejoicing, and whose people will be for Him a joy, and where the wolf and the lamb will feed together and not do harm.

Here, too, we are told, as we are in the book of Revelation, that the Lord will create a new heaven and a new earth, where they have a similar meaning. And we are also told that He will create Jerusalem.

[4] Elsewhere in Isaiah:

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city! For the uncircumcised and the unclean shall no longer come into you. Shake yourself from the dust, arise; sit down, O Jerusalem! ...My people shall know My name...in that day, for I am He who speaks. Behold, it is I.... ...Jehovah has comforted His people, He has redeemed Jerusalem. (Isaiah 52:1-2, 6, 9)

In this chapter also the subject is the Lord’s advent and a church to be established by Him. Consequently the Jerusalem into which the uncircumcised and the unclean shall no longer come, and which the Lord has redeemed, means the church; and Jerusalem, the holy city, means the church in respect to its doctrine received from the Lord.

[5] In Zephaniah:

Sing, O daughter of Zion! ...Be glad...with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem! ...The King of Israel...is in your midst; fear evil no more.... He will be glad over you with joy, He will rest in your love, He will rejoice over you with jubilation.... ...I will give you fame and praise among all the peoples of the earth.... (Zephaniah 3:14-17, 20)

Here, likewise, the subject is the Lord and the church to be established by Him, over which the King of Israel, namely the Lord, will be glad with joy and rejoice with jubilation, in whose love He will rest, and to whom He will give fame and praise among all the peoples of the earth.

[6] In Isaiah:

Thus said Jehovah, your Redeemer, and He who formed you..., who says to Jerusalem, “You shall be inhabited, ” and to the cities of Judah, “You shall be built.” (Isaiah 44:24, 26)

And in Daniel:

Know and understand that from the going forth of the word to restore and build Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince, there shall be seven weeks.... (Daniel 9:25)

Jerusalem here, too, means the church, as is apparent, since the Lord restored and rebuilt the church, but not Jerusalem, the capital city of the Jews.

[7] Jerusalem means a church established by the Lord in the following places as well.

In Zechariah:

Thus said Jehovah: “I will return to Zion, and dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. (Therefore) Jerusalem shall be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of Jehovah of hosts, the Holy Mountain.” (Zechariah 8:3, cf. 8:20-23)

In Joel:

Then you shall know that I am Jehovah your God, dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy.... And it will come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drip new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk.... And...shall abide...Jerusalem from generation to generation. (Joel 3:17-20)

In Isaiah:

In that day the offshoot of Jehovah shall be beautiful and glorious.... And it shall come to pass that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy — everyone who is recorded for life in Jerusalem. (Isaiah 4:2-3)

In Micah:

...at the end of days the mountain of Jehovah’s house shall be established on top of the mountains.... For out of Zion the doctrine shall go forth, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.... ...to you...the former kingdom shall come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem. (Micah 4:1-2, 8)

In Jeremiah:

At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah, and all the nations shall be gathered..., because of the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem. No more shall they follow the confirmation of their evil heart. (Jeremiah 3:17)

In Isaiah:

Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feast; let your eyes behold Jerusalem, a tranquil home, a tabernacle that will not go away. Its stakes will never be removed, nor will any of its cords be torn away. (Isaiah 33:20)

And so on also elsewhere, as in Isaiah 24:23, 37:32, 66:10-14; Zechariah 12:3, 6, 8-10, 14:8, 11-12, 21; Malachi 3:2, 4; Psalms 122:1-7, 137:4-6.

[8] Jerusalem in these places means a church which the Lord will establish, and also one that He has established, and not the Jerusalem in the land of Canaan inhabited by Jews; and this can be seen as well from places in the Word where we are told that it has been utterly ruined, or that it will be destroyed. As, for example, in Jeremiah 5:1, 6:6-7, 7:17-18ff, 8:6-8ff, 9:11-12, 14ff, 13:9-10, 14, 14:16; Lamentations 1:8-9, 17; Ezekiel 4:1-17, 5:9-17, 12:18-19, 15:6-8, 16:1-63, 23:1-49; Matthew 23:37, 39; Luke 19:41-44, 21:20-22, 23:28-30. And many other places.

Footnotes:

1. [Swedenborg’s Footnote] To be shown that a city in the Word symbolizes the doctrine of a church and its religion, see the Arcana Coelestia (The Secrets of Heaven), nos. 402, 2449, 2943, 3216, 4492, 4493. That the gate of a city symbolizes the doctrine by which one enters the church, nos. 2943, 4477, 4478. That the elders therefore sat at the gate of the city in judgment, ibid. That to go out of the gate is to depart from the doctrine, nos. 4492, 4493. That representational cities and palaces in heaven appear when angels are engaged in discussing doctrinal matters, no. 3216 there.

  
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Published by the General Church of the New Jerusalem, 1100 Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania 19009, U.S.A. A translation of Doctrina Novae Hierosolymae de Domino, by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1688-1772. Translated from the Original Latin by N. Bruce Rogers. ISBN 9780945003687, Library of Congress Control Number: 2013954074.

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Ezekiel 23

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

2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

3 and they played the prostitute in Egypt; they played the prostitute in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.

4 The names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.

5 Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors,

6 who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

7 She bestowed her prostitution on them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on whoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.

8 Neither has she left her prostitution since [the days of] Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their prostitution on her.

9 Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.

10 These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they killed with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.

11 Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her prostitution which were more than the prostitution of her sister.

12 She doted on the Assyrians, governors and rulers, [her] neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

13 I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way.

14 She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

15 dressed with girdles on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them princes to look on, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

16 As soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

17 The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

18 So she uncovered her prostitution, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.

19 Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.

20 She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

21 Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the handling of your bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of your youth.

22 Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side:

23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, [and] all the Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors and rulers all of them, princes and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.

24 They shall come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples; they shall set themselves against you with buckler and shield and helmet all around; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.

25 I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal with you in fury; they shall take away your nose and your ears; and your residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take your sons and your daughters; and your residue shall be devoured by the fire.

26 They shall also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels.

27 Thus will I make your lewdness to cease from you, and your prostitution [brought] from the land of Egypt; so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.

28 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom your soul is alienated;

29 and they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare; and the nakedness of your prostitution shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.

30 These things shall be done to you, because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols.

31 You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I give her cup into your hand.

32 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You will drink of your sister's cup, which is deep and large; you will be ridiculed and held in derision; it contains much.

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

34 You shall even drink it and drain it out, and you shall gnaw the broken pieces of it, and shall tear your breasts; for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.

35 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution.

36 Yahweh said moreover 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; and with their idols have they committed adultery; and they have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through [the fire] to them to be devoured.

38 Moreover this they have done 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 behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.

40 Furthermore you have sent for men who come from far, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you did wash yourself, paint your eyes, and decorate yourself with ornaments,

41 and sit on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my oil.

42 The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands of them [twain], and beautiful crowns on their heads.

43 Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, Now will they play the prostitute with her, and she [with them].

44 They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute: so went they in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.

45 Righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

46 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.

47 The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

49 They shall recompense your lewdness on you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols; and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.