^{2 Ref} Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother:

^{3 Ref} They were acting like loose women in Egypt; when they were young their behaviour was loose: there their breasts were crushed, even the points of their young breasts were crushed.

^{4 Ref} Their names were Oholah, the older, and Oholibah, her sister: and they became mine, and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem, Oholibah.

^{5 Ref} And Oholah was untrue to me when she was mine; she was full of desire for her lovers, even for the Assyrians, her neighbours,

^{6 Ref} Who were clothed in blue, captains and rulers, all of them young men to be desired, horsemen seated on horses.

^{7 Ref} And she gave her unclean love to them, all of them the noblest men of Assyria: and she made herself unclean with the images of all who were desired by her.

^{8 Ref} And she has not given up her loose ways from the time when she was in Egypt; for when she was young they were her lovers, and by them her young breasts were crushed, and they let loose on her their unclean desire.

^{9 Ref} For this cause I gave her up into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians on whom her desire was fixed.

^{10 Ref} By these her shame was uncovered: they took her sons and daughters and put her to death with the sword: and she became a cause of wonder to women; for they gave her the punishment which was right.

^{11 Ref} And her sister Oholibah saw this, but her desire was even more unmeasured, and her loose behaviour was worse than that of her sister.

^{12 Ref} She was full of desire for the Assyrians, captains and rulers, her neighbours, clothed in blue, horsemen going on horses, all of them young men to be desired.

^{13 Ref} And I saw that she had become unclean; the two of them went the same way.

^{14 Ref} And her loose behaviour became worse; for she saw men pictured on a wall, pictures of the Chaldaeans painted in bright red,

^{15 Ref} With bands round their bodies and with head-dresses hanging round their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the Babylonians, the land of whose birth is Chaldaea.

^{16 Ref} And when she saw them she was full of desire for them, and sent servants to them in Chaldaea.