¹⁶ As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers^(A) to them in Chaldea.^(B)

²⁹ Then you increased your promiscuity to include Babylonia,^[a](A) a land of merchants, but even with this you were not satisfied.^(B)

²⁸ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.^(A)

¹⁴ With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce^(A) the unstable;^(B) they are experts in greed^(C)—an accursed brood!^(D)

⁴⁰ “They even sent messengers for men who came from far away,^(A) and when they arrived you bathed yourself for them, applied eye makeup^(B) and put on your jewelry.^{(C) 41} You sat on an elegant couch,^(D) with a table^(E) spread before it on which you had placed the incense^(F) and olive oil that belonged to me.^(G)

¹⁷ You also took the fine jewelry I gave you, the jewelry made of my gold and silver, and you made for yourself male idols and engaged in prostitution with them.^(A)