Ezekiel 23:3-21

3and they prostituted themselves in Egypt. They 1prostituted themselves in their youth; there their breasts were squeezed and there their virgin breasts were handled. 4Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister. And they became Mine, and they gave birth to sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah and Jerusalem is Oholibah.

5“Oholah prostituted herself 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 handsome young men, horsemen riding on horses. 7She bestowed her 5obscene practices on them, all of whom were the choicest 6men of Assyria; and with all whom she lusted after, with all their idols she 7defiled herself. 8She did not abandon her obscene practices 8from the time in Egypt; for in her youth 9men had slept with her, and they handled her virgin breasts and poured out their obscene practice on her. 9Therefore, I handed her over to her 10lovers, to the 11Assyrians, after whom she lusted. 10They 12uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters, but they killed her with the sword. So she became a 13subject of gossip 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 obscene practices were 15more than the prostitution of her sister. 12She lusted after the 1617Assyrians, governors and officials, the ones near, opulently dressed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them handsome young men. 13And I saw that she had defiled herself; they both took 18the same way. 14So she increased her obscene practices. And she saw men 19carved on the wall, images of the 20Chaldeans drawn in bright red, 15wearing belts around their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, 21like the 22Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth. 16And 23when she saw them she 24lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. 17And the 2526Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their obscene practice. And when she had been defiled by them, 27she turned away from them in disgust. 18She 28exposed her obscene practices and exposed her nakedness; then 29I turned away from her in 30disgust, just as 31I had turned away from her 32sister in disgust. 19Yet she multiplied her obscene practices, remembering the days of her youth, when she prostituted herself in the land of Egypt. 20She 33lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose discharge is like the discharge of horses. 21So you longed for the 34outrageous sin of your youth, when 35the Egyptians handled your breasts because of the breasts of your youth.