1. The word of the Lord came to me:
2. Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother.
3. Even as young girls, they were prostitutes, serving as prostitutes in Egypt. There the Egyptians fondled their breasts and caressed their virgin nipples.
4. Oholah was the name of the elder, and the name of her sister was Oholibah. They became mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names: Samaria was Oholah and Jerusalem, Oholibah.
5. Oholah became a prostitute while married to me and lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians: warriors
6. dressed in purple, governors and officers, all of them handsome young soldiers, mounted on horses.
7. She gave herself as a prostitute to them, to all the Assyrian elite; with all those for whom she lusted, she also defiled herself with their idols.