Ezekiel 23:3–21

³and they played the harlot in Egypt. They ^aplayed the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and there their virgin bosom was handled.

⁴“Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister. And they became Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah and Jerusalem is Oholibah.

⁵“Oholah played the harlot ¹while she was Mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the ^aAssyrians, her neighbors,

⁶who were clothed in purple, ^agovernors and officials, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

⁷“She bestowed her harlotries on them, all of whom were the choicest ¹men of Assyria; and with all whom she lusted after, with all their idols she ^adefiled herself.

⁸“She did not forsake her harlotries ^afrom the time in Egypt; for in her youth ¹men had lain with her, and they handled her virgin bosom and poured out their ²lust on her.

⁹“Therefore, I gave her into the hand of her ^alovers, into the hand of the ¹Assyrians, after whom she lusted.

¹⁰“They ^auncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters, but they slew her with the sword. Thus she became a ¹byword among women, and they executed judgments on her.

¹¹“Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was ^amore corrupt in her lust than she, and her harlotries were more than the harlotries of her sister.

¹²“She lusted after the ^1aAssyrians, governors and officials, the ones near, magnificently dressed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

¹³“I saw that she had defiled herself; they both took ¹the same way.

¹⁴“So she increased her harlotries. And she saw men ^aportrayed on the wall, images of the ^bChaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

¹⁵girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, ¹like the ²Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

¹⁶“¹When she saw them she ^alusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

¹⁷“The ^1aBabylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their harlotry. And when she had been defiled by them, ²she became disgusted with them.

¹⁸“She ^auncovered her harlotries and uncovered her nakedness; then ¹I became ^bdisgusted with her, as I had become disgusted with her ^csister.

¹⁹“Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

²⁰“She ^alusted after their paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

²¹“Thus you longed for the ^alewdness of your youth, when ¹the Egyptians handled your bosom because of the breasts of your youth.