¹¹“Her sister Oholibah saw this,^q yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.^r ¹²She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors in full dress, mounted horsemen, all handsome young men.^s ¹³I saw that she too defiled herself; both of them went the same way.^t

¹⁴“But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall,^u figures of Chaldeans^a portrayed in red,^v ¹⁵with belts^w around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea.^b ¹⁶As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers^x to them in Chaldea.^y ¹⁷Then the Babylonians^z came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.^a ¹⁸When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her naked body,^b I turned away^c from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.^d ¹⁹Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. ²⁰There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

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Footnotes

aOr Babylonians
bOr Babylonia; also in verse 16

Cross references

qSee Jer 3:7
r Jer 3:8–11; See Eze 16:51
s 2 Ki 16:7–15; See 2 Ch 28:16; See Eze 16:15, 28
tSee 2 Ki 17:19; Hos 12:2
uSee Eze 8:10
v Jer 22:14; Na 2:3
wSee Isa 5:27
xSee Isa 57:9
ySee Eze 6:9
z Jer 40:9
aSee Eze 16:29
bSee Isa 57:8
c Ps 78:59; 106:40; Jer 6:8
d Jer 12:8; Am 5:21