Ezekiel 23

The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

وَكَانَ إِلَيَّ كَلاَمُ الرَّبِّ قَائِلاً:

Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

«يَا ابْنَ آدَمَ، كَانَ امْرَأَتَانِ ابْنَتَا أُمٍّ وَاحِدَةٍ،

And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

وَزَنَتَا بِمِصْرَ. فِي صِبَاهُمَا زَنَتَا. هُنَاكَ دُغْدِغَتْ ثُدِيُّهُمَا، وَهُنَاكَ تَزَغْزَغَتْ تَرَائِبُ عُذْرَتِهِمَا.

And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.

وَاسْمُهُمَا: أُهُولَةُ الْكَبِيرَةُ، وَأُهُولِيبَةُ أُخْتُهَا. وَكَانَتَا لِي، وَوَلَدَتَا بَنِينَ وَبَنَاتٍ. وَاسْمَاهُمَا: السَّامِرَةُ «أُهُولَةُ»، وَأُورُشَلِيمُ «أُهُولِيبَةُ».

And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,

وَزَنَتْ أُهُولَةُ مِنْ تَحْتِي وَعَشِقَتْ مُحِبِّيهَا، أَشُّورَ الأَبْطَالَ

Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

اللاَّبِسِينَ الأَسْمَانْجُونِيَّ وُلاَةً وَشِحَنًا، كُلُّهُمْ شُبَّانُ شَهْوَةٍ، فُرْسَانٌ رَاكِبُونَ الْخَيْلَ.

Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.

فَدَفَعَتْ لَهُمْ عُقْرَهَا لِمُخْتَارِي بَنِي أَشُّورَ كُلِّهِمْ، وَتَنَجَّسَتْ بِكُلِّ مَنْ عَشِقَتْهُمْ بِكُلِّ أَصْنَامِهِمْ.

Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.

وَلَمْ تَتْرُكْ زِنَاهَا مِنْ مِصْرَ أَيْضًا، لأَنَّهُمْ ضَاجَعُوهَا فِي صِبَاهَا، وَزَغْزَغُوا تَرَائِبَ عِذْرَتِهَا وَسَكَبُوا عَلَيْهَا زِنَاهُمْ.

Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

لِذلِكَ سَلَّمْتُهَا لِيَدِ عُشَّاقِهَا، لِيَدِ بَنِي أَشُّورَ الَّذِينَ عَشِقَتْهُمْ.

These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.

هُمْ كَشَفُوا عَوْرَتَهَا. أَخَذُوا بَنِيهَا وَبَنَاتِهَا، وَذَبَحُوهَا بِالسَّيْفِ، فَصَارَتْ عِبْرَةً لِلنِّسَاءِ. وَأَجْرَوْا عَلَيْهَا حُكْمًا.

And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.

«فَلَمَّا رَأَتْ أُخْتُهَا أُهُولِيبَةُ ذلِكَ أَفْسَدَتْ فِي عِشْقِهَا أَكْثَرَ مِنْهَا، وَفِي زِنَاهَا أَكْثَرَ مِنْ زِنَا أُخْتِهَا.

She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.

عَشِقَتْ بَنِي أَشُّورَ الْوُلاَةَ وَالشِّحَنَ الأَبْطَالَ اللاَّبِسِينَ أَفْخَرَ لِبَاسٍ، فُرْسَانًا رَاكِبِينَ الْخَيْلَ كُلُّهُمْ شُبَّانُ شَهْوَةٍ.

Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,

فَرَأَيْتُ أَنَّهَا قَدْ تَنَجَّسَتْ، وَلِكِلْتَيْهِمَا طَرِيقٌ وَاحِدَةٌ.

And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,

وَزَادَتْ زِنَاهَا. وَلَمَّا نَظَرَتْ إِلَى رِجَال مُصَوَّرِينَ عَلَى الْحَائِطِ، صُوَرُ الْكَلْدَانِيِّينَ مُصَوَّرَةًٍ بِمُغْرَةٍ،

Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:

مُنَطَّقِينَ بِمَنَاطِقَ عَلَى أَحْقَائِهِمْ، عَمَائِمُهُمْ مَسْدُولَةٌ عَلَى رُؤُوسِهِمْ. كُلُّهُمْ فِي الْمَنْظَرِ رُؤَسَاءُ مَرْكَبَاتٍ شِبْهُ بَنِي بَابِلَ الْكَلْدَانِيِّينَ أَرْضُ مِيلاَدِهِمْ،

And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.

عَشِقَتْهُمْ عِنْدَ لَمْحِ عَيْنَيْهَا إِيَّاهُمْ، وَأَرْسَلَتْ إِلَيْهِمْ رُسُلاً إِلَى أَرْضِ الْكَلْدَانِيِّينَ.

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

فَأَتَاهَا بَنُو بَابِلَ فِي مَضْجَعِ الْحُبِّ وَنَجَّسُوهَا بِزِنَاهُمْ، فَتَنَجَّسَتْ بِهِمْ، وجَفَتْهُمْ نَفْسُهَا.

So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.

وَكَشَفَتْ زِنَاهَا وَكَشَفَتْ عَوْرَتَهَا، فَجَفَتْهَا نَفْسِي، كَمَا جَفَتْ نَفْسِي أُخْتَهَا.

Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

وَأَكْثَرَتْ زِنَاهَا بِذِكْرِهَا أَيَّامَ صِبَاهَا الَّتِي فِيهَا زَنَتْ بِأَرْضِ مِصْرَ.

For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

وَعَشِقَتْ مَعْشُوقِيهِمِ الَّذِينَ لَحْمُهُمْ كَلَحْمِ الْحَمِيرِ وَمَنِيُّهُمْ كَمَنِيِّ الْخَيْلِ.

Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

وَافْتَقَدْتِ رَذِيلَةَ صِبَاكِ بِزَغْزَغَةِ الْمِصْرِيِّينَ تَرَائِبَكِ لأَجْلِ ثَدْيِ صِبَاكِ.

Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;

«لأَجْلِ ذلِكَ يَا أُهُولِيبَةُ، هكَذَا قَالَ السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ: هأَنَذَا أُهَيِّجُ عَلَيْكِ عُشَّاقَكِ الَّذِينَ جَفَتْهُمْ نَفْسُكِ، وَآتِي بِهِمْ عَلَيْكِ مِنْ كُلِّ جِهَةٍ:

The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.

بَنِي بَابِلَ وَكُلَّ الْكَلْدَانِيِّينَ، فَقُودَ وَشُوعَ وَقُوعَ، وَمَعَهُمْ كُلُّ بَنِي أَشُّورَ، شُبَّانُ شَهْوَةٍ، وُلاَةٌ وَشِحَنٌ كُلُّهُمْ رُؤَسَاءُ مَرْكَبَاتٍ وَشُهَرَاءُ. كُلُّهُمْ رَاكِبُونَ الْخَيْلَ.

And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.

فَيَأْتُونَ عَلَيْكِ بِأَسْلِحَةٍ مَرْكَبَاتٍ وَعَجَلاَتٍ، وَبِجَمَاعَةِ شُعُوبٍ يُقِيمُونَ عَلَيْكِ التُّرْسَ وَالْمِجَنَّ وَالْخُوذَةَ مِنْ حَوْلِكِ، وَأُسَلِّمُ لَهُمُ الْحُكْمَ فَيَحْكُمُونَ عَلَيْكِ بِأَحْكَامِهِمْ.

And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.

وَأَجْعَلُ غَيْرَتِي عَلَيْكِ فَيُعَامِلُونَكِ بِالسَّخَطِ. يَقْطَعُونَ أَنْفَكِ وَأُذُنَيْكِ، وَبَقِيَّتُكِ تَسْقُطُ بِالسَّيْفِ. يَأْخُذُونَ بَنِيكِ وَبَنَاتِكِ، وَتُؤْكَلُ بَقِيَّتُكِ بِالنَّارِ.

They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.

وَيَنْزِعُونَ عَنْكِ ثِيَابَكِ، وَيَأْخُذُونَ أَدَوَاتِ زِينَتِكِ.

Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.

وَأُبَطِّلُ رَذِيلَتَكِ عَنْكِ وَزِنَاكِ مِنْ أَرْضِ مِصْرَ، فَلاَ تَرْفَعِينَ عَيْنَيْكِ إِلَيْهِمْ وَلاَ تَذْكُرِينَ مِصْرَ بَعْدُ.

For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:

لأَنَّهُ هكَذَا قَالَ السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ: هأَنَذَا أُسَلِّمُكِ لِيَدِ الَّذِينَ أَبْغَضْتِهِمْ، لِيَدِ الَّذِينَ جَفَتْهُمْ نَفْسُكِ.

And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

فَيُعَامِلُونَكِ بِالْبُغْضَاءِ وَيَأْخُذُونَ كُلَّ تَعَبِكِ، وَيَتْرُكُونَكِ عُرْيَانَةً وَعَارِيَةً، فَتَنْكَشِفُ عَوْرَةُ زِنَاكِ وَرَذِيلَتُكِ وَزِنَاكِ.

I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.

أَفْعَلُ بِكِ هذَا لأَنَّكِ زَنَيْتِ وَرَاءَ الأُمَمِ، لأَنَّكِ تَنَجَّسْتِ بِأَصْنَامِهِمْ.

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

فِي طَرِيقِ أُخْتِكِ سَلَكْتِ فَأَدْفَعُ كَأْسَهَا لِيَدِكِ.

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.

هكَذَا قَالَ السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ: إِنَّكِ تَشْرَبِينَ كَأْسَ أُخْتِكِ الْعَمِيقَةَ الْكَبِيرَةَ. تَكُونِينَ لِلضَّحِكِ وَلِلاسْتِهْزَاءِ. تَسَعُ كَثِيرًا.

Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

تَمْتَلِئِينَ سُكْرًا وَحُزْنًا، كَأْسَ التَّحَيُّرِ وَالْخَرَابِ، كَأْسَ أُخْتِكِ السَّامِرَةِ.

Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

فَتَشْرَبِينَهَا وَتَمْتَصِّينَهَا وَتَقْضَمِينَ شُقَفَهَا وَتَجْتَثِّينَ ثَدْيَيْكِ، لأَنِّي تَكَلَّمْتُ، يَقُولُ السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ.

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

لِذلِكَ هكَذَا قَالَ السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ: مِنْ أَجْلِ أَنَّكِ نَسِيتِنِي وَطَرَحْتِنِي وَرَاءَ ظَهْرِكِ، فَتَحْمِلِي أَيْضًا رَذِيلَتَكِ وَزِنَاكِ».

The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;

وَقَالَ الرَّبُّ لِي: «يَا ابْنَ آدَمَ، أَتَحْكُمُ عَلَى أُهُولَةَ وَأُهُولِيبَةَ؟ بَلْ أَخْبِرْهُمَا بِرَجَاسَاتِهِمَا،

That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.

لأَنَّهُمَا قَدْ زَنَتَا وَفِي أَيْدِيهِمَا دَمٌ، وَزَنَتَا بِأَصْنَامِهِمَا وَأَيْضًا أَجَازَتَا بَنِيهِمَا الَّذِينَ وَلَدَتَاهُمْ لِي النَّارَ أَكْلاً لَهَا.

Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

وَفَعَلَتَا أَيْضًا بِي هذَا: نَجَّسَتَا مَقْدِسِي فِي ذلِكَ الْيَوْمِ وَدَنَّسَتَا سُبُوتِي.

For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.

وَلَمَّا ذَبَحَتَا بَنِيهِمَا لأَصْنَامِهِمَا، أَتَتَا فِي ذلِكَ الْيَوْمِ إِلَى مَقْدِسِي لِتُنَجِّسَاهُ. فَهُوَذَا هكَذَا فَعَلَتَا فِي وَسْطِ بَيْتِي.

And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,

بَلْ أَرْسَلْتُمَا إِلَى رِجَال آتِينَ مِنْ بَعِيدٍ. الَّذِينَ أُرْسِلَ إِلَيْهِمْ رَسُولٌ فَهُوَذَا جَاءُوا. هُمُ الَّذِينَ لأَجْلِهِمِ اسْتَحْمَمْتِ وَكَحَّلْتِ عَيْنَيْكِ وَتَحَلَّيْتِ بِالْحُلِيِّ،

And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.

وَجَلَسْتِ عَلَى سَرِيرٍ فَاخِرٍ أَمَامَهُ مَائِدَةٌ مُنَضَّضَةٌ، وَوَضَعْتِ عَلَيْهَا بَخُورِي وَزَيْتِي.

And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.

وَصَوْتُ جُمْهُورٍ مُتَرَفِّهِينَ مَعَهَا، مَعَ أُنَاسٍ مِنْ رَعَاعِ الْخَلْقِ. أُتِيَ بِسَكَارَى مِنَ الْبَرِّيَّةِ، الَّذِينَ جَعَلُوا أَسْوِرَةً عَلَى أَيْدِيهِمَا وَتَاجَ جَمَال عَلَى رُؤُوسِهِمَا.

Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?

فَقُلْتُ عَنِ الْبَالِيَةِ فِي الزِّنَا: آلآنَ يَزْنُونَ زِنًا مَعَهَا وَهِيَ.

Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.

فَدَخَلُوا عَلَيْهَا كَمَا يُدْخَلُ عَلَى امْرَأَةٍ زَانِيَةٍ. هكَذَا دَخَلُوا عَلَى أُهُولَةَ وَعَلَى أُهُولِيبَةَ الْمَرْأَتَيْنِ الزَّانِيَتَيْنِ.

And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

وَالرِّجَالُ الصِّدِّيقُونَ هُمْ يَحْكُمُونَ عَلَيْهِمَا حُكْمَ زَانِيَةٍ وَحُكْمَ سَفَّاكَةِ الدَّمِ، لأَنَّهُمَا زَانِيَتَانِ وَفِي أَيْدِيهِمَا دَمٌ.

For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.

لأَنَّهُ هكَذَا قَالَ السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ: إِنِّي أُصْعِدُ عَلَيْهِمَا جَمَاعَةً وَأُسَلِّمُهُمَا لِلْجَوْرِ وَالنَّهْبِ.

And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

وَتَرْجُمُهُمَا الْجَمَاعَةُ بِالْحِجَارَةِ، وَيُقَطِّعُونَهُمَا بِسُيُوفِهِمْ، وَيَذْبَحُونَ أَبْنَاءَهُمَا وَبَنَاتِهِمَا، وَيُحْرِقُونَ بُيُوتَهُمَا بِالنَّارِ.

Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

فَأُبَطِّلُ الرَّذِيلَةَ مِنَ الأَرْضِ، فَتَتَأَدَّبُ جَمِيعُ النِّسَاءِ وَلاَ يَفْعَلْنَ مِثْلَ رَذِيلَتِكُمَا.

And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

وَيَرُدُّونَ عَلَيْكُمَا رَذِيلَتَكُمَا، فَتَحْمِلاَنِ خَطَايَا أَصْنَامِكُمَا، وَتَعْلَمَانِ أَنِّي أَنَا السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ».