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There were their brestes brussed, and the pappes off their maydenheade destroyed. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The eldest of them was called Oola, and hir yongest sister Ooliba. These two were myne, and bare sonnes and doughters. Their names were, Samaria, and that was Oola: and Ierusalem, that was Ooliba.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>As for Oola, she beganne to go a whorynge, when I had take her to me. She was set on fyre vpon hir louers the Assirians, <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>which had to do with her: euen the prynces and lordes, that were deckte in costly araye: fayre yonge men, lusty ryders of horses. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Thus thorow hir whordome, she cleued vnto all the yonge men off Assiria: Yee she was madde vpon them, and defyled herselff with all their Idols. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Nether ceassed she fro the fornicacio, that she vsed with the Egipcians: for in hir youth they laye wt her, they brussed the brestes of hir maydenheade, and poured their wordome vpon her. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Wherfore, I delyuered her in to ye hodes of hir louers, euen the Assirians, whom she so loued. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>These discouered hir shame, toke hir sonnes and doughters, and slewe her with the swearde: An euell name gat she of all people, ad they punyshed her.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Hir sister Ooliba sawe this, ad destroyed herself wt inordinate loue, more then she, & exceaded hir sister in whordome: <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>she loued ye Assirians (which also laye wt her) namely, the prynces & greate lordes, that were clothed wt all maner of gorgious apparell, all lusty horsmen and fayre yonge personnes. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then I sawe, that they both were defyled a like. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But she increased still in whordome: for when she sawe men paynted vpon the wall, the ymages off the Caldees set forth with fresh colours, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>with fayre gyrdles aboute them, and goodly bonettes vpon their heades, lokynge all like prynces (after ye maner of the Babilonias and Caldees in their owne londe, where they be borne). <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Inmediatly, as soone as she sawe them, she brent in loue vpon them, and sent messaugers for them in to the londe of the Caldees. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Now when the Babilonias came to her, they laye with her, and defyled her with their whordome, and so was she poluted with with them. And when hir lust was abated from them, <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>hir whordome and shame was discouered & sene: then my herte forsoke her, like as my herte was gone from hir sister also. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Neuertheles she vsed hir whordome euer the longer the more, and remembred the dayes off hir youth, wherin she had played the harlot in the londe off Egipte: <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>she brent in lust vpon them, whose flesh was like ye flesh of Asses, and their sede like the sede off horses. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Thus thou hast renued the fylthynesse of thy youth, when thy louers bressed yi pappes, and marred thy brestes in Egipte.<p> <A name="23"></a><p class="hdg">Oholibah to Be Plagued<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Therfore (o Ooliba) thus saieth ye LORDE God. I will rayse vp thy louers (with whom thou hast satisfied thy lust) agaynst the, and gather them together rounde aboute the: <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Namely, the Babilonians, and all the Caldees: Pecod, Schoa and Coa, with all the Assirians: all yonge and fayre louers: prynces and lordes, knyghtes and gentlemen, which be all good horsmen: <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>These shall come vpon the with horses, charettes, & a greate multitude of people: which shal be harnessed aboute the on euery syde, wt brestplates, sheldes and helmettes. I will punysh ye before them, yee they the selues shal punysh the, acordinge to their owne iudgmet. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I will put my gelousy vpon the, so that they shall deale cruelly with the. They shal cut of thy nose and thine eares, and the remnaunt shall fall thorow the swearde. They shall cary awaye thy sonnes and doughters, & the resydue shalbe brent in the fyre. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Thy shal strype the out of thy clothes, & cary thy costly Iewels awaye with them. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Thus will I make an ende off thy fylthynesse & whordome, which thou hast brought out of the lode of Egipte: so that thou shalt turne thine eyes nomore after them, & cast thy mynde nomore vpon Egipte. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>For thus saieth the LORDE: Beholde, I will delyuer ye in to the hodes of them, whom thou hatest: yee euen in to the hondes of them, with who thou hast fulfylled thy lust, <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>which shall deale cruelly with ye: All thy laboure shal they take with them, and leaue the naked and bare, and thus the shame of thy filthy whordome shal come to light. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>All these thinges shal happen vnto the, because of thy whordome, which thou hast vsed amonge the Gentiles, with whose Idols thou hast defyled yi self. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Thou hast walked in the waye of thy sister, therfore will I geue the hir cuppe in thy honde.<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Thus saieth the LORDE God: Thou shalt drynke off thy sisters cuppe, how depe & farre so euer it be to the botome. Thou shalt be laughed to scorne, and had as greatly in derision, as is possible.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Thou shalt be full off dronckennes and sorowe, for the cuppe of yi sister Samaria is a cuppe of destruccion & waistinge:<p> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>the same shalt thou drynke, and suppe it out eue to ye dregges, yee thou shalt eate vp the broken peces off it, and so teare thine owne brestes: For euen I haue spoken it, saieth the LORDE God.<p> <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Therfore thus saieth ye LORDE God: For so moch as thou hast forgotte me, & cast me asyde, so beare now thine owne fylthinesse & whordome.<p> <A name="37"></a><p class="hdg">Judgment on Both Sisters<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>The LORDE sayde morouer vnto me: Thou sonne of ma, wilt thou not reproue Oola & Ooliba? Shewe the their abhominacios: <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>namely, yt they haue broke their wedlocke, & stayned their hodes wt bloude: yee euen wt their Idols haue they committed aduoutry, & offred them their owne children (to be deuoured) who they had borne vnto me. <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>Yee & this haue they done vnto me also: they haue defyled my Sactuary in that same daye, & haue vnhalowed my Sabbath. <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>For when they had slayne their childre for their Idols, they came the same daye in to my Sanctuary, to defyle it. Lo, this haue they done in my house.<p> <A name="41"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>Besyde all this, thou hast sent yi messaungers for men out of farre coutrees: and whe they came, thou hast bathed, trymmed and set forth thy selff off the best fashion: <A name="42"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>thou sattest vpo a goodly bed, & a table spred before the: whervpon thou hast set myne incense and myne oyle. <A name="43"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>Then was there greate cheare wt her, & the men yt were sent fro farre coutrees ouer the deserte: vnto these they gaue bracelettes vpon their hondes, & set glorious crownes vpon their heades.<p> <A name="44"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>Then thought I: no doute, these wil vse their harlotry also wt yoder olde whore. <A name="45"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>And they wente in to her, as vnto a comon harlot: Euen so wente they also to Oola & Ooliba, those filthy women. <A name="46"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>O ye all that loue vertue and rightuousnes, iudge the, punysh them: as aduoutrers and murtherers ought to be iudged and punyshed. For they are breakers off wedlocke, and the bloude is in their hondes.<p> <A name="47"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>Wherfore thus saieth the LORDE God: bringe a greate multitude off people vpon them, and make them be scatred and spoyled: <A name="48"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>these shal stone them, and gorre them with their sweardes. They shal slaye their sonnes and doughters and burne vp their houses with fyre. <A name="49"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>Thus will I destroye all soch fylthynes out off the londe: that all women may lerne, not to do after youre vnclenesse. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>And so they shall laye youre fylthinesse vpon youre owne selues, and ye shalbe punyshed for the synnes, that ye haue committed with youre Idols: & ye shall knowe, that I am the LORDE.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Coverdale Bible of 1535<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../ezekiel/22.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ezekiel 22"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ezekiel 22" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../ezekiel/24.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Ezekiel 24"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Ezekiel 24" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>