1. The word of the Lord came to me:
2. “Son of man, there were two women who were daughters of the same mother.
3. They engaged in prostitution in Egypt; in their youth they engaged in prostitution. Their breasts were squeezed there; lovers fondled their virgin nipples there.
4. Oholah was the name of the older and Oholibah the name of her younger sister. They became mine, and gave birth to sons and daughters. Oholah is Samaria and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
5. “Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians – warriors
6. clothed in blue, governors and officials, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
7. She bestowed her sexual favors on them; all of them were the choicest young men of Assyria. She defiled herself with all whom she desired – with all their idols.
8. She did not abandon the prostitution she had practiced in Egypt; for in her youth men had sex with her, fondled her virgin breasts, and ravished her.
9. Therefore I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.
10. They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. She became notorious among women, and they executed judgments against her.
11. “Her sister Oholibah watched this, but she became more corrupt in her lust than her sister had been, and her acts of prostitution were more numerous than those of her sister.
12. She lusted after the Assyrians – governors and officials, warriors in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
13. I saw that she was defiled; both of them followed the same path.
14. But she increased her prostitution. She saw men carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans carved in bright red,
15. wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, the image of Babylonians whose native land is Chaldea.