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.
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: