And she has changed My judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and defiled My Laws more than the countries that are all around her; for they have rejected My judgments and My Laws; they have not walked in them.

Like the adulterous wife, instead of her husband, she takes strangers.

And your older sister is Samaria, she and her daughters who dwell at your left hand. And your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

As I live, says the Lord Jehovah, Sodom your sister, she nor her daughters, has not done as you have done, you and your daughters.

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom; pride. Fullness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters. Nor did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

and say: What is your mother? A lioness. She lay down among lions; she multiplied her cubs among young lions.

And she brought up one of her cubs; it became a strong lion and learned to tear the prey. It ate men.

And when she saw that she had waited and that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a strong lion.

Your mother is like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters; she was fruitful and full of branches because of many waters.

And she had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches; and it was seen in her height, with the multitude of her branches.

But she was plucked up in fury; she was thrown down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit. Her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire burned them up.

And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.

You are guilty in your blood that you have shed; and you have defiled yourself in your idols you have made. And your days are brought near, and have come to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all lands.

Behold, the rulers of Israel, each man by his might, have been in you in order to shed blood.

In you are men of slander to shed blood; and in you they eat on the mountains; in your midst they do unchaste acts.

In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken usury and increase, and you gained by extortion of your neighbors, and you have forgotten Me, says the Lord Jehovah.

Her rulers in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, to get unjust gain.

And Oholah whored under Me. And she lusted after her lovers, to her Assyrian neighbors,

So she bestowed her harlotries on them, the choice sons of Assyria; with all of them, and with all whom she lusted after; she defiled herself with all their idols.

Nor did she leave her fornications from Egypt. For in her youth they lay with her, and they worked her virgin nipples, and poured their fornications on her.

Therefore I have given her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians on whom she lusted.

They uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters and killed her with the sword. And she became notorious among women, and they executed judgment on her.

And her sister Oholibah saw, she was more corrupt in her lustfulness than she, and her fornications were greater than her sister's whoredom.

She lusted to the sons of Assyria, governors and rulers nearby, clothed most perfectly; horsemen riding horses, all of them desirable young men.

And I saw that she was defiled, one way was to both of them.

And she added to her fornications. And she saw men carved on the wall; images of the Chaldeans engraved with vermilion,

and she lusted after them, to the sight of her eyes, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with fornications. And she was defiled with them, and her mind was alienated from them.

So she uncovered her fornications and uncovered her nakedness. And My soul was alienated from her just as My soul was alienated from her sister.

Yet she multiplied her fornications to recall the days of her youth, in which she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

And she lusted on her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

And I said about the one worn in adulteries, Will they now whore with her, and she with them?

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

For her blood is in her midst; she set it on the top of a rock. She did not pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust,

She has wearied herself with lies, and her great scum did not go out from her. Her scum shall be in the fire.

Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha! She is shattered, the doors of the peoples, she has turned to me; I shall be filled; she is laid waste.

And they shall take up a mourning for you, and say to you, How you who lived by the sea are destroyed, the famous city which was strong in the sea, she and her people who caused their terror to be on all who lived in it!

And in their wailing they shall lift up a lamentation and lament over you, saying, Who is like Tyre; as she who is quiet in the midst of the sea?

They shall fall in the midst of those slain by the sword; she is delivered to the sword; they draw her and all her multitudes.

So say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood; and shall you possess the land?

Because you have had a never-ending hatred, and have shed the blood of the sons of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that iniquity had an end,

So I poured My fury on them, because of the blood that they had shed on the land, and for their idols by which they defiled it.