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.