Ezekiel 23:3–21

³And they go a-whoring in Egypt, In their youth they have gone a-whoring, There they have bruised their breasts, And there they have dealt with the loves of their virginity. ⁴And their names are Aholah the elder, And Aholibah her sister, And they are Mine, and bear sons and daughters. As to their names—Samaria is Aholah, And Jerusalem is Aholibah. ⁵And go a-whoring doth Aholah under Me, And she doteth on her lovers, On the neighbouring Assyrians, ⁶Clothed with blue—governors and prefects, Desirable young men all of them, Horsemen, riding on horses, ⁷And she giveth her whoredoms on them, The choice of the sons of Asshur, All of them—even all on whom she doted, By all their idols she hath been defiled. ⁸And her whoredoms out of Egypt she hath not forsaken, For with her they lay in her youth, And they dealt with the loves of her virginity, And they pour out their whoredoms on her. ⁹Therefore I have given her into the hand of her lovers, Into the hand of sons of Asshur on whom she doted. ¹⁰They have uncovered her nakedness, Her sons and her daughters they have taken, And her by sword they have slain, And she is a name for women, And judgments they have done with her.

¹¹And see doth her sister Aholibah, And she maketh her doting love more corrupt than she, And her whoredoms than the whoredoms of her sister. ¹²On sons of Asshur she hath doted, Governors and prefects, Neighbouring ones—clothed in perfection, Horsemen, riding on horses, Desirable young men all of them. ¹³And I see that she hath been defiled, One way is to them both. ¹⁴And she doth add unto her whoredoms, And she seeth graved men on the wall, Pictures of Chaldeans, graved with red lead, ¹⁵Girded with a girdle on their loins, Dyed attire spread out on their heads, The appearance of rulers—all of them, The likeness of sons of Babylon, Chaldea is the land of their birth. ¹⁶And she doteth on them at the sight of her eyes, And sendeth messengers to them, to Chaldea. ¹⁷And come in unto her do sons of Babylon, To the bed of loves, And they defile her with their whoredoms, And she is defiled with them, And her soul is alienated from them. ¹⁸And she revealeth her whoredoms, And she revealeth her nakedness, And alienated is My soul from off her, As alienated was My soul from off her sister. ¹⁹And she multiplieth her whoredoms, To remember the days of her youth, When she went a-whoring in the land of Egypt. ²⁰And she doteth on their paramours, Whose flesh is the flesh of asses, And the issue of horses—their issue. ²¹Thou lookest after the wickedness of thy youth, In dealing out of Egypt thy loves, For the sake of the breasts of thy youth.