4. The older one was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. They became Mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah represents Samaria and Oholibah represents Jerusalem.
5. “Oholah acted like a prostitute even though she was Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians: warriors
6. dressed in blue, governors and prefects, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on steeds.
7. She offered her sexual favors to them; all of them were the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all those she lusted after and with all their idols.
8. She didn’t give up her promiscuity that began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin nipples, and poured out their lust on her.
9. Therefore, I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians she lusted for.
10. They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. Since they executed judgment against her, she became notorious among women.
11. “Now her sister Oholibah saw this, but she was even more depraved in her lust than Oholah, and made her promiscuous acts worse than those of her sister.
12. She lusted after the Assyrians: governors and prefects, warriors splendidly dressed, horsemen riding on steeds, all of them desirable young men.
13. And I saw that she had defiled herself; both of them had taken the same path.
14. But she increased her promiscuity when she saw male figures carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,
15. wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like officers, a depiction of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.
16. At the sight of them she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.