5. “Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
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, all of them the choicest men of Assyria. 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 caressed 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 amongst women; for they executed judgements 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 neighbours, 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.
14. “She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Kasdim portrayed with red,