3. They were harlots in Egypt; they were harlots in their youth; their bosoms were caressed there and their virgin breasts were fondled.
4. Their names were Oholah, the older one, and Oholibah, her sister. They became Mine, and they gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
5. “Oholah prostituted herself, though she was Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians, warriors,
6. dressed in blue, governors and rulers, all of them handsome young men, horsemen riding on horses.
7. She prostituted herself with them, all of the choice men of Assyria. She defiled herself with all the idols of everyone she lusted after.
8. She did not give up her harlotry in Egypt; for in her youth they had lain with her. They fondled her virgin breasts and poured out their lust on her.
9. Therefore I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, whom she lusted after.
10. They stripped her naked, they took her sons and her daughters and slaughtered her with the sword. She became notorious among women. Judgments were executed upon her.
11. “Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more depraved in her lust than her sister and her promiscuous acts worse.
12. She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers, warriors splendidly clad, horsemen riding on horses, all of them handsome young men.
13. I saw that she defiled herself; they both went the same way.
14. But she kept increasing her harlotry. She saw men carved on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans carved in red,
15. girded with sashes on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them had the appearance of officers, the likeness of Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their birth.
16. As soon as she saw them she lusted after them. She sent messengers to them in Chaldea.