^{5 Ref} And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians `her' neighbors,

^{6 Ref} who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

^{7 Ref} And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on whomsoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.

^{8 Ref} Neither hath she left her whoredoms since `the days of' Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their whoredom upon her.

^{9 Ref} Wherefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.