8. She continued the prostitution she began in Egypt. When she was young, she slept with men. They touched her breasts and sinned sexually with her.
9. “So I gave her to her lovers, the Assyrians, that she wanted so badly.
10. They stripped her naked and took away her sons and daughters. Then they killed her with a sword. Women everywhere began talking about how she had been punished.
11. “Her sister Jerusalem saw what happened to Samaria. And so Jerusalem became worse than her sister in her sexual desire and prostitution.
12. She also desired the Assyrians. All of them—governors, commanders, warriors dressed in uniform, and horsemen—were handsome.
13. I saw that both girls were alike. Both of them were prostitutes.
14. “But Jerusalem went even further. She saw carvings of Babylonian men on a wall. They wore red
15. and had belts around their waists. They wore turbans on their heads. They all looked like chariot officers born in Babylonia.
16. When she saw them, she lusted after them. So she sent messengers to them in Babylonia.
17. So these Babylonian men came and had sinful physical relations with her. They made her unclean. After that, she became sick of them.
18. But she continued her prostitution so that everyone knew about it. And I finally became sick of her, as I had her sister.
19. But she remembered how she was a young prostitute in Egypt. So she took part in even more prostitution.