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.