Ezekiel 23:3-21

3and they played the harlot in Egypt. They 1played the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and there their virgin bosom was handled. 4Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister. And they became Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah and Jerusalem is Oholibah.

5“Oholah played the harlot 2while she was Mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the 3Assyrians, her neighbors, 6who were clothed in purple, 4governors and officials, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses. 7She bestowed her harlotries on them, all of whom were the choicest 5men of Assyria; and with all whom she lusted after, with all their idols she 6defiled herself. 8She did not forsake her harlotries 7from the time in Egypt; for in her youth 8men had lain with her, and they handled her virgin bosom and poured out their 9lust on her. 9Therefore, I gave her into the hand of her 10lovers, into the hand of the 11Assyrians, after whom she lusted. 10They 12uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters, but they slew her with the sword. Thus she became a 13byword among women, and they executed judgments on her.

11“Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was 14more corrupt in her lust than she, and her harlotries were more than the harlotries of her sister. 12She lusted after the 1516Assyrians, governors and officials, the ones near, magnificently dressed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men. 13I saw that she had defiled herself; they both took 17the same way. 14So she increased her harlotries. And she saw men 18portrayed on the wall, images of the 19Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, 15girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, 20like the 21Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth. 1622When she saw them she 23lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. 17The 2425Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their harlotry. And when she had been defiled by them, 26she became disgusted with them. 18She 27uncovered her harlotries and uncovered her nakedness; then 28I became 29disgusted with her, as 30I had become disgusted with her 31sister. 19Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt. 20She 32lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses. 21Thus you longed for the 33lewdness of your youth, when 34the Egyptians handled your bosom because of the breasts of your youth.