Ezekiel 23:3-21

3who acted like prostitutes in Egypt, behaving promiscuously in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin nipples caressed.

4The older one was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. They became mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah represents Samaria and Oholibah represents Jerusalem.

5“Oholah acted like a prostitute even though she was mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians: warriors

6dressed in blue, governors and prefects, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on steeds.

7She offered her sexual favors to them; all of them were the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all those she lusted after and with all their idols.

8She didn’t give up her promiscuity that began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin nipples, and poured out their lust on her.

9Therefore, I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians she lusted for.

10They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. Since they executed judgment against her, she became notorious among women.

11“Now her sister Oholibah saw this, but she was even more depraved in her lust than Oholah, and made her promiscuous acts worse than those of her sister.

12She lusted after the Assyrians: governors and prefects, warriors splendidly dressed, horsemen riding on steeds, all of them desirable young men.

13And I saw that she had defiled herself; both of them had taken the same path.

14But she increased her promiscuity when she saw male figures carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in bright red,

15wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like officers, a depiction of the Babylonians in Chaldea, their native land.

16At the sight of them she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

17Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and defiled her with their lust. But after she was defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.

18When she flaunted her promiscuity and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust just as I turned away from her sister.

19Yet she multiplied her acts of promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth when she acted like a prostitute in the land of Egypt

20and lusted after their lovers, whose sexual members were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.

21So you revisited the depravity of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your nipples to enjoy your youthful breasts.