1. Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,
2. “Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.
3. They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their youthful nipples were caressed there.
4. Their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.
5. “Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,
6. who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
7. She gave herself as a prostitute to them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them. She defiled herself with the idols of whoever she lusted after.
8. She hasn’t left her prostitution since leaving Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her. They carressed her youthful nipples; and they poured out their prostitution on her.
9. “Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.
10. These uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters; and they killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.
11. “Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lusting than she, and in her prostitution which was more depraved than the prostitution of her sister.
12. She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
13. I saw that she was defiled. They both went the same way.