23. Men from Babylon and all Babylonia and men from Pekod, Shoa and Koa will come against you. All the Assyrians will come against you. They are governors, commanders, chariot drivers and important men, all riding horses.
24. Those men will come with great armies. They will come with their weapons, chariots and wagons. They will surround you with large and small shields and with helmets. And I will hand you over to them for punishment. And they will punish you with their own kind of punishment.
25. Then you will see how strong my anger can be. They will punish you in their anger. They will cut off your noses and ears. They will take away your sons and daughters. Those who are left will be burned.
26. They will take off your clothes and steal your jewelry.
27. I will put a stop to the sinful life you began when you were in Egypt. You will not desire these things anymore. And you will not remember Egypt anymore.
28. “This is what the Lord God says: You became sick of your lovers. But I am giving you to those men you now hate.
29. They will treat you with hate and take away everything you worked for. They will leave you empty and naked. Everyone will know about the sinful things you did. Your sexual sins
30. have brought this on you. You have made yourselves unclean by worshiping their idols.
31. You did the same things your sister did. So you will get the same punishment.
32. “This is what the Lord God says:You will drink the same cup your sister did.And that cup is deep and wide.Everyone will make fun of you,because the cup is full.
33. It will make you miserable and drunk.It is the cup of fear and ruin.It is the cup of your sister Samaria.
34. You will drink everything in it.Then you will smash itand tear at your breasts.I have spoken, says the Lord God.
35. “So this is what the Lord God says: You have forgotten me and turned your back on me. So you will be punished for your sexual sins.”
36. The Lord said to me: “Human being, will you judge Samaria and Jerusalem? Then show them their hated acts.