The Babylonian Exile

and they will deal with you in hatred, seize everything you have worked for, and leave you naked and exposed - the full shame of your whoring will be exposed, your lewdness and your fornicating.

These things will be done to you because you have gone fornicating with the Goyim, and because you are defiled with their idols.

You walked down your sister's path, so I will put her cup in your hand.'

Adonai ELOHIM says: 'You will drink from your sister's cup, a cup both deep and wide, full right up to the brim with scorn and derision,

filling you with drunkenness and sorrow, a cup of horror and devastation the cup of your sister Shomron.

You will drink it, you will drain it, and then you will gnaw it to shreds and tear out your own breasts! For I have spoken it' says Adonai ELOHIM.

"Therefore this is what Adonai ELOHIM says: 'Because you forgot me and flung me behind your back, you will bear the guilt of your lewdness and whoring.'"

Then ADONAI said to me, "Human being, are you ready to judge Oholah and Oholivah? Then confront them with their disgusting practices

For they committed adultery, and their hands are dripping with blood. They committed adultery with their idols; and they offered their sons, whom they bore to me, for these idols to eat.

Moreover, they have done this to me as well: they defiled my sanctuary on the same day, and they profaned my shabbats

For after killing their children for their idols, they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; this they did in my house.

"Worse still, you sent a messenger summoning men to come from a distance; and they came. For them you washed yourself, painted your eyes, decked yourself with your finery,

and sat on a sumptuous bed, with a table arranged before it, on which you put my incense and my olive oil.

The noise of a carefree crowd could be heard there; many of the men were brought in drunk from the desert. They put bracelets on their hands and magnificent crowns on their heads.

I thought, 'That woman! She's worn out from all her adulteries, but they still go to fornicate with her!'

For every one went in to her; just as men go in to a prostitute, so they went in to Oholah and Oholivah, those debauched women.

Nevertheless, there are righteous men who will judge them as adulterers and murderers are supposed to be judged; because they are adulterers, and blood is dripping from their hands.

For here is what Adonai ELOHIM says: 'Summon an assembly to punish them; give them over to terror and plunder.

Let the assembly stone them to death, dispatch them with their swords, kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses to the ground.

"'Thus I will put an end to lewdness in the land, so that all women may be taught not to imitate your lewdness.

You will receive the punishment your lewdness deserves, and you will pay the penalty for your idolatries. Then you will know that I am Adonai ELOHIM.'"

The word of ADONAI came to me on the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year:

"Human being, write down today's date; because on this very day the king of Bavel has begun his attack on Yerushalayim.

And tell this allegory to these rebels; say that Adonai ELOHIM says: 'Put a pot on the fire; put it there, pour water in it;

Put in it pieces of meat, all the best parts - the thigh, the shoulder; fill it with the choicest cuts,