New American Bible, Revised Edition

Ezekiel 23:7-14 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

7. She gave herself as a prostitute to them, to all the Assyrian elite; with all those for whom she lusted, she also defiled herself with their idols.

8. She did not abandon the prostitution she had begun with the Egyptians, who had lain with her when she was young, fondling her virgin breasts and pouring out their lust upon her.

9. Therefore I handed her over to her lovers, to the Assyrians for whom she lusted.

10. They exposed her nakedness; her sons and daughters they took away, and her they killed with the sword. She became a byword for women because of the sentence carried out against her.

11. Although her sister Oholibah saw all this, her lust was more depraved than her sister’s; she outdid her in prostitution.

12. She too lusted after the Assyrians, governors and officers, warriors impeccably clothed, mounted on horses, all of them handsome young soldiers.

13. I saw that she had defiled herself—now both had gone down the same path.

14. She went further in her prostitution: She saw male figures drawn on the wall, images of Chaldeans drawn with vermilion,