¹⁷ And the Babylonians came to her ^(A)into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, ^(B)she turned from them in disgust.

²⁸ “For thus says the Lord God: ^(A)Behold, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, ^(B)into the hands of those from whom you turned in disgust,

²² Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I will stir up against you your lovers ^(A)from whom you turned in disgust, ^(B)and I will bring them against you from every side:

³⁷ therefore, behold, ^(A)I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and ^(B)all those you hated. ^(C)I will gather them against you from every side ^(D)and will uncover your nakedness to them, that ^(E)they may see all your nakedness.

¹⁵ Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred, so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, “Get up! Go!”

⁹ Therefore its name was called ^(A)Babel, because there the Lord confused^[a] the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

¹⁰ The beginning of his kingdom was ^(A)Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in ^(B)the land of Shinar.