12. She doted upon the Assyrians–governors and deputies, her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
13. And I saw that she was defiled, that both [of the sisters] took one way.
14. But [Aholibah] carried her harlotries further, for she saw men pictured upon the wall, the pictures of the Chaldeans sketched in bright red pigment,
15. Girded with girdles on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, a picture of Babylonian men whose native land was Chaldea,
16. Then as soon as she saw [the sketches of] them, she doted on them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
17. And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their evil desire; and when she was polluted by them, she [Jerusalem] broke the relationship and pushed them away from her in disgust.
18. So she flaunted her harlotries and exposed her nakedness, and I was disgusted and turned from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister.
19. Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth in which she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
20. For she doted upon her paramours there, whose lust was sensuous and vulgar like that of asses or stallions.
21. Thus you yearned for the lewdness of your youth, when those of Egypt handled your bosom on account of your girlish breasts.
22. Therefore, O Aholibah, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will rouse up your lovers against you, from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you on every side:
23. The Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and officers all of them, princes, men of renown and counselors, all of them riding on horses.
24. And they shall come against you with weapons, chariots, wagons and wheels, and with a host of infantry which shall array themselves against you with buckler and shield and helmet round about; and I will commit the judgment and punishment to them, and they shall judge and punish you according to their [heathen] customs in such matters.
25. And I will set My jealous indignation against you, and they shall deal with you in fury; they shall take away your nose and your ears, and those who are left of you shall fall by the sword; they shall take your sons and your daughters, and the remainder shall be devoured by the fire.
26. They shall also strip you [Judah] of your clothes and take away your fine jewels.
27. Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your harlotry brought from the land of Egypt, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them nor [earnestly] remember Egypt any more.