14. “But Jerusalem went even further. She saw carvings of Babylonian men on a wall. They wore red
15. and had belts around their waists and turbans on their heads. They all looked like chariot officers born in Babylonia.
16. When she saw them, she wanted to have sexual relations with them and sent messengers to them in Babylonia.
17. So these Babylonian men came and had sexual relations with her and made her unclean. After that, she became sick of them.
18. But she continued her prostitution so openly that everyone knew about it. And I finally became sick of her, as I had her sister.
19. But she remembered how she was a young prostitute in Egypt, so she took part in even more prostitution.
20. She wanted men who behaved like animals in their sexual desire.
21. In the same way you desired to do the sinful things you had done in Egypt. There men touched and held your young breasts.
22. “So, Jerusalem, this is what the Lord God says: You are tired of your lovers. So now I will make them angry with you and have them attack you from all sides.
23. Men from Babylon and all Babylonia and men from Pekod, Shoa, and Koa will attack you. All the Assyrians will attack you: handsome young captains and lieutenants, all of them important men and all riding horses.
24. Those men will attack with great armies and with their weapons, chariots, and wagons. They will surround you with large and small shields and with helmets. And I will give them the right to punish you, and they will give you their own kind of punishment.
25. Then you will see how strong my anger can be when they punish you in their anger. They will cut off your noses and ears. They will take away your sons and daughters, and 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 so that you will not desire it or remember Egypt anymore.
28. “This is what the Lord God says: You became tired of your lovers, but I am going to hand you over to those men you now hate.
29. They will treat you with hate and take away everything you worked for, leaving you empty and naked. Everyone will know about the sinful things you did. Your sexual sins
30. have brought this on you. You have had sexual relations with the nations and made yourselves unclean by worshiping their idols.