1   And the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:

2   Sonne of man, there were ^note two wemen daughters of one mother.

3   And they fornicated in Ægypt, ^note in their youth they fornicated: there were their brestes pressed, & the pappes of their virginitie were broken.

4   And their names ^note Oolla the elder and Ooliba her yonger sister: and I had them, and they bare sonnes, and daughters. Moreouer their names, Samaria Oolla, and Ierusalem Ooliba.

5   Oolla therfore fornicated ouer me, & was madde vpon her louers, vpon the Assirians approching,

6   clothed with hyacinth, the princes, and the magistrates al the youngmen of concupiscences; al the horsmen, the riders of horses.

7   And she gaue her fornications vpon them al the chosen children of the Assirians: and in al, on whom she was madde, in their vncleannes she was polluted.

8   Moreouer also her fornications, which she had made in

Ægypt she left not: for they also slept with her in her youth, & they brake the breasts of her virginitie, and powred out their fornication vpon her.

9   Therfore haue I deliuered her into the handes of her louers, into the handes of the children of Assur, vpon whose lust she was madde.

10   They discouered her ignominie, tooke her sonnes and daughters, & her they killed with the sword: and they were made notorious wemen, and they did iudgements in her.

11   Which when her sister Ooliba had seene, she was madde with lust more then she: & she gaue impudently her fornication aboue the fornication of her sister

12   to the children of the Assyrians, to the princes, and magistrates coming to her clothed with partie clothing, to the horsmen that were carried on horses, and to yoongmen al of goodlie beautie.

13   And I saw that she was polluted, both one way.

14   And she increased her fornications: and when she had seene men paynted in a wal, the images of the Chaldees expressed in colours,

15   and girded with girdles about their reynes, and died turbants on their heades, the forme of al the dukes, the similitude of the children of Babylon, and of the land of the Chaldees, wherin they were borne,

16   she was mad vpon them with the concupiscence of her eyes, and she sent messengers to them into Chaldee.

17   And when the children of Babylon were come to her vnto the bed of pappes, they polluted her with ^note their fornications, and she was polluted of them, & her soule was filled of them.

18   She reueled also her fornications, and discouered her ignominie: and my soule departed from her, as my soule departed from her sister.

19   For she hath multiplied her fornications, remembring the dayes of her youth, in which she fornicated in the land of Ægypt.

20   And she was madde for lust vpon the lying with them, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses: and as the fluxe of horses, their fluxe.

21   And thou hast visited the wickednes of thy youth when thy breastes were pressed in Ægypt, & the pappes of thy virginitie broken.

22   Therfore Ooliba, thus sayth our Lord God: Behold I wil rayse vp al thy louers against thee, of whom thy soule is filled: and I wil gather them together against thee round about,

23   the children of Babylon, and al the Chaldees, the nobles, and the tyrants, and princes, al the children of the Assyrians, the yongmen of goodlie beautie, al the captaynes, and magistrates, the princes of princes, and the renowned riders of horses.

24   And they shal come vpon thee wel appoynted with chariot, and

wheele, a multitude of peoples: with brigintine, and buckler, and helmet they shal be armed against thee, on euerie side: and I wil geue iudgement before them, & they shal iudge thee by their iudgements.

25   And I wil put my ^note zele in thee, which they exercise with thee in furie: ^note thy nose, and thine eares they shal cut of: and the thinges that remaine shal fal by the sword: they shal take thy sonnes, and thy daughters, and thy verie last thing shal be deuoured with fire.

26   And they shal strippe thee of thy garments, and shal take away the vessels of thy glorie.

27   And I wil make thy wickednes to cease out of thee, and thy fornication out of the Land of Ægypt: neither shalt thou lift vp thine eyes to them, and Ægypt thou shalt remember no more.

28   Because thus saith our Lord God: Behold I wil deliuer thee into the handes of them, whom thou hatest, into their handes, of whom thy soule is filled.

29   And they shal deale with thee in hatred, and they shal take away al thy labours, and shal let thee goe naked, and ful of ignominie, and the ignominie of thy fornications shal be reueled, thy wicked dede, and thy fornications.

30   They haue done these thinges to thee, because thou hast fornicated after the Nations, among which thou wast polluted in their idols.

31   Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister, and I wil geue her cuppe in thy hand.

32   Thus saith our Lord God: The cuppe of thy sister thou shalt drinke deepe, and wide: thou shalt be into derision and into scorne, which is most capable.

33   With drunckennes, and sorow thou shalt be replenished: with the cuppe of pensifenes, and sadnes, with the cuppe of thy sister Samaria.

34   And thou shalt drinke it, and shalt drinke it vp euen to the dregges, and the fragments therof thou shalt deuoure, thou shalt rent thy breastes: because I haue spoken, saith our Lord God.

35   Therfore thus saith our Lord God: Because thou hast forgotten me, and hast cast me of behind thy bodie, thou also beare thy wickednes, and thy fornications.

36   And our Lord spake to me, saying: Sonne of man, ^note doest thou iudge Oolla, and Ooliba, and shewest thou them their wicked deedes?

37   because they haue committed aduoutrie, and bloud is in their handes, and with their idols they haue fornicated: moreouer also their children, whom they begate for me, they haue offered vnto them to be deuoured.

38   Yea and they haue done this to me. They polluted ^note my sanctuarie in that day, and profaned my ^note sabbathes.

39   And when they

immolated their children to their idols, and went into my sanctuarie in that day to pollute it: these thinges also they did in the middes of my house.

40   They sent to men comming from far, to whom they had sent a messenger: therfore loe they came: to whom thou didst wash thyself, and didst annoint thine eyes about with ^note stibikestone, and wast adorned with wemens ornaments.

41   Thou satest in a very faire bed, and a table was decked before thee: mine incense, and mine oyntment thou didst set vpon it.

42   And the voice of a multitude reioycing was on it: and on the men, that were brought of the multitude of men, and came from the desert, they did put bracelets on their handes, and beautiful crownes on their heades.

43   And I said to her, that was worne in aduoutries: Now wil this woman also fornicate in her fornication.

44   And they went to her as to an harlot woman: so went they vnto Oolla, and Ooliba wicked wemen.

45   They therfore are iust men: these shal iudge them with the iudgement of adulteresses, and with the iudgement of bloudshedders: because they are adultresses, and bloud is in their handes.

46   For thus saith our Lord God: Bring a multitude to them, and deliuer them into tumult, and into spoile:

47   and let them be stoned with the stones of peoples, and let them be thrust through with their swordes: they shal kil their sonnes, and daughters, and their houses they shal burne with fire.

48   And I wil take away the wickednes out of the land, & al wemen shal learne, not to doe according to the wickednes of them.

49   And they shal geue your wickednes vpon you, and the sinnes of your idols you shal carie: and you shal know that I am the Lord God.

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