5. And Aholah played the harlot when she was Mine, and she was foolishly fond of her lovers and doted on the Assyrians her neighbors,
6. Who were clothed with blue, governors and deputies, all of them attractive young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
7. And she bestowed her harlotries upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on whomever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.
8. Neither has she left her harlotries since the days of Egypt [from where she brought them], for in her youth men there lay with her and handled her girlish bosom, and they poured out their sinful desire upon her.
9. Wherefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians upon whom she doted.
10. These uncovered her nakedness and shame; they took her sons and her daughters and they slew her with the sword, and her name became notorious and a byword among women when judgments were executed upon her.
11. And her sister Aholibah saw this; yet she was more corrupt in her foolish fondness than she, and in her harlotries she was more wanton than her sister in her harlotries.
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.