³⁰ They will do these things to you because you have been untrue to me, and have gone after the nations, and have become unclean with their images.

⁹ And those of you who are kept safe will have me in mind among the nations where they have been taken away as prisoners, how I sent punishment on their hearts which were untrue to me, and on their eyes which were turned to their false gods: and they will be full of hate for themselves because of the evil things which they have done in all their disgusting ways.

³⁵ But they were joined to the nations, learning their works.

³⁶ And they gave worship to images; which were a danger to them:

³⁷ They even made offerings of their sons and their daughters to evil spirits,

³⁸ And gave the blood of their sons and their daughters who had done no wrong, offering them to the images of Canaan; and the land was made unclean with blood.

¹⁸ And now, what have you to do on the way to Egypt, to get your drink from the waters of the Nile? or what have you to do on the way to Assyria, to get your drink from the waters of the River?

¹⁹ The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

²⁰ For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman

¹¹ Then you will say to them, Because your fathers have given me up, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and become their servants and their worshippers, and have given me up and have not kept my law;

¹² And you have done worse evil than your fathers; for see, every one of you is guided by the pride of his evil heart, so as not to give ear to me:

⁸ And nations from all sides will go past this town, and every man will say to his neighbour, Why has the Lord done such things to this great town?

⁹ And they will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord their God, and became worshippers and servants of other gods.

⁷ 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.

¹² 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 And I saw that she had become unclean; the two of them went the same way.

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

¹⁵ 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 And when she saw them she was full of desire for them, and sent servants to them in Chaldaea.

¹⁷ And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and made her unclean with their loose desire, and she became unclean with them, and her soul was turned from them.

¹⁸ So her loose behaviour was clearly seen and her shame uncovered: then my soul was turned from her as it had been turned from her sister.

¹⁹ But still she went on the more with her loose behaviour, keeping in mind the early days when she had been a loose woman in the land of Egypt.

²⁰ And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is like the seed of horses.

²¹ And she made the memory of the loose ways of her early years come back to mind, when her young breasts were crushed by the Egyptians.