8. She continued the prostitution she began in Egypt. When she was young, she had slept with men, and they touched her breasts and had sexual relations with her.
9. “So I handed her over 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, but she became worse than her sister in her sexual desire and prostitution.
12. She also desired the Assyrians, who were all soldiers in beautiful uniforms—handsome young captains and lieutenants riding horses.
13. I saw that both girls were alike; both 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 and turbans on their heads. They all looked like chariot officers born in Babylonia.
16. When she saw them, she wanted to have sexual relations with them and sent messengers to them in Babylonia.
17. So these Babylonian men came and had sexual relations with her and made her unclean. After that, she became sick of them.
18. But she continued her prostitution so openly 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.
20. She wanted men who behaved like animals in their sexual desire.
21. In the same way you desired to do the sinful things you had done in Egypt. There men touched and held your young breasts.
22. “So, Jerusalem, this is what the Lord God says: You are tired of your lovers. So now I will make them angry with you and have them attack you from all sides.
23. Men from Babylon and all Babylonia and men from Pekod, Shoa, and Koa will attack you. All the Assyrians will attack you: handsome young captains and lieutenants, all of them important men and all riding horses.
24. Those men will attack with great armies and with their weapons, chariots, and wagons. They will surround you with large and small shields and with helmets. And I will give them the right to punish you, and they will give you their own kind of punishment.
25. Then you will see how strong my anger can be when they punish you in their anger. They will cut off your noses and ears. They will take away your sons and daughters, and those who are left will be burned.
26. They will take off your clothes and steal your jewelry.