1. The Lord spoke to me.
2. “Mortal man,” he said, “there were once two sisters.
3. When they were young, living in Egypt, they lost their virginity and became prostitutes.
4. The older one was named Oholah (she represents Samaria), and the younger one was named Oholibah (she represents Jerusalem). I married both of them, and they bore me children.
5. Although she was mine, Oholah continued to be a prostitute and was full of lust for her lovers from Assyria.
6. They were soldiers in uniforms of purple, noblemen and high-ranking officers; all of them were handsome young cavalry officers.
7. She was the whore for all the Assyrian officers, and her lust led her to defile herself by worshipping Assyrian idols.
8. She continued what she had begun as a prostitute in Egypt, where she lost her virginity. From the time she was a young woman, men slept with her and treated her like a prostitute.
9. So I handed her over to her Assyrian lovers whom she wanted so much.
10. They stripped her naked, seized her sons and daughters, and then killed her with a sword. Women everywhere gossiped about her fate.
11. “Even though her sister Oholibah saw this, she was wilder and more of a prostitute than Oholah had ever been.