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.
12. She too was full of lust for the Assyrian noblemen and officers — soldiers in bright uniforms — and for the cavalry officers, all those handsome young men.
13. I saw that she was completely immoral, that the second sister was as bad as the first.
14-15. “She sank deeper and deeper in her immorality. She was attracted by the images of high Babylonian officials carved into the wall and painted bright red, with sashes round their waists and fancy turbans on their heads.
16. As soon as she saw them, she was filled with lust and sent messengers to them in Babylonia.
17. The Babylonians came to have sex with her. They used her and defiled her so much that finally she became disgusted with them.
18. She exposed herself publicly and let everyone know she was a whore. I was as disgusted with her as I had been with her sister.
19. She became more of a prostitute than ever, acting just as she did as a young woman, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.
20. She was filled with lust for oversexed men who had all the lustfulness of donkeys or stallions.”
21. (Oholibah, you wanted to repeat the immorality you were guilty of as a young woman in Egypt, where men played with your breasts and you lost your virginity.)
22. “Now then, Oholibah, this is what I, the Sovereign Lord, am saying to you. You are tired of those lovers, but I will make them angry with you and bring them to surround you.
23. I will bring all the Babylonians and Chaldeans, men from Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians. I will gather all those handsome young noblemen and officers, all those important officials and high-ranking cavalry officers.
24. They will attack you from the north, bringing a large army with chariots and supply wagons. Protected by shields and helmets, they will surround you. I will hand you over to them, and they will judge you by their own laws.
25. Because I am angry with you, I will let them deal with you in their anger. They will cut off your nose and your ears and kill your children. Yes, they will take your sons and daughters from you and burn them alive.
26. They will tear off your clothes and take your jewels.