^{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.