¹⁴And she increased her whorings, and she saw men carved^s on the wall, images of Chaldeans^t carved in red, ¹⁵belted with a belt at^u their waist with turbans on their heads, all of them giving the appearance of adjutants,^v the image^w of the Babylonians;^x Chaldea was the land of their birth. ¹⁶And she lusted for them when her eyes saw them,^y and she sent messengers to them at Chaldea. ¹⁷And so the Babylonians^z came to her for the bed of lovemaking; and they defiled her with their fornication, and she was defiled by them, and she turned from them. ¹⁸And she revealed her whorings, and she revealed her nakedness, and so I turned from her just as^a I turned from her sister. ¹⁹Yet^b she increased her whorings, recalling^c the days of her childhood when she was prostituted^d in the land of Egypt. ²⁰And she lusted after her male lovers whose genitalia were the genitalia of male donkeys and their seminal emission was the seminal emission of horses. ²¹And you longed after the obscene conduct of your youth when your bosom was caressed by Egypt, fondling your young breasts.

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Footnotes

sOr “portrayed”
tAccording to the reading tradition (Qere)
uOr “around”
vOr “officers”
wOr “likeness”
xLiterally “sons of Babylon”
yLiterally “at the sight of her eyes”
zLiterally “sons of Babylon”
aLiterally “as that”
bOr “And”
cOr “remembering”
dOr “prostituted herself”