The Babylonian Exile

And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and they shall take away all thy labours, and shall let thee go naked, and full of disgrace, and the disgrace of thy fornication shall be discovered, thy wickedness, and thy fornications.

They have done these things to thee, because thou hast played the harlot with the nations among which thou wast defiled with their idols.

Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister and I will give her cup into thy hand.

Thus saith the Lord God: Thou shalt drink thy sister's cup, deep and wide: thou shalt be had in derision and scorn, which containeth very much.

Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness, and sorrow: with the cup of grief and sadness, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

And thou shalt drink it, and shalt drink it up even to the dregs, and thou shalt devour the fragments thereof, thou shalt rend thy breasts: because I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast forgotten me, and hast cast me off behind thy back, bear thou also thy wickedness, and thy fornications.

And the Lord spoke to me, saying: Son of man, dost thou judge Oolla, and Ooliba, and dost thou declare to them their wicked deeds?

Because they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and they have committed fornication with their idols: moreover also their children, whom they bore to me, they have offered to them to be devoured.

Yea, and they have done this to me. They polluted my sanctuary on the same day, and profaned my sabbaths.

And when they sacrificed their children to their idols, and went into my sanctuary the same day to profane it: they did these things even in the midst of my house.

They sent for men coming from afar, to whom they had sent a messenger: and behold they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, and didst paint thy eyes, and wast adorned with women's ornaments.

Thou sattest on a very fine bed, and a table was decked before thee: whereupon thou didst set my incense, and my ointment.

And there was in her the voice of a multitude rejoicing: and to some that were brought of the multitude of men, and that came from the desert, they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.

And I said to her that was worn out in her adulteries: Now will this woman still continue in her fornication.

And they went in to her, as to a harlot: so went they in unto Oolla, and Ooliba, wicked women.

They therefore are just men: these shall judge them as adulteresses are judged, and as shedders of blood are judged: because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

For thus saith the Lord God: Bring a multitude upon them, and deliver them over to tumult and rapine:

And let the people stone them with stone, and let them be stabbed with their swords: they shall kill their sons and daughters, and their houses they shall burn with fire.

And I will take away wickedness out of the land: and all women shall learn, not to do according to the wickedness of them.

And they shall render your wickedness upon you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols: and you shall know that I am the Lord God.

And the word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, saying:

Son of man, write thee the name of this day, on which the king of Babylon hath set himself against Jerusalem to day.

And thou shalt speak by a figure a parable to the provoking house, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Set on a pot, set it on, I say, and put water in it.

Heap together into it the pieces thereof, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder, choice pieces and full of bones.