Ezekiel 23:11–20

The Younger Sister, Jerusalem

¹¹“Now ⁱalthough her sister Oholibah saw this, ^jshe became more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her harlotry more corrupt than her sister’s harlotry.

¹²“She lusted for the neighboring ^kAssyrians,

^lCaptains and rulers,

Clothed most gorgeously,

Horsemen riding on horses,

All of them desirable young men.

¹³Then I saw that she was defiled;

Both took the same way.

¹⁴But she increased her harlotry;

She looked at men portrayed on the wall,

Images of ^mChaldeans portrayed in vermilion,

¹⁵Girded with belts around their waists,

Flowing turbans on their heads,

All of them looking like captains,

In the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea,

The land of their nativity.

¹⁶ⁿAs soon as her eyes saw them,

She lusted for them

And sent ^omessengers to them in Chaldea.

¹⁷“Then the ³Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love,

And they defiled her with their immorality;

So she was defiled by them, ^pand alienated herself from them.

¹⁸She revealed her harlotry and uncovered her nakedness.

Then ^qI ^ralienated Myself from her,

As I had alienated Myself from her sister.

¹⁹“Yet she multiplied her harlotry

In calling to remembrance the days of her youth,

^sWhen she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

²⁰For she lusted for her ⁴paramours,

Whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys,

And whose issue is like the issue of horses.