¹⁷ So they came and committed adultery with her, defiling her in the bed of love. After being defiled, however, she rejected them in disgust.

²⁸ “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will surely hand you over to your enemies, to those you loathe, those you rejected.

The Lord’s Judgment of Oholibah

²² “Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will send your lovers against you from every direction—those very nations from which you turned away in disgust.

³⁷ this is what I am going to do. I will gather together all your allies—the lovers with whom you have sinned, both those you loved and those you hated—and I will strip you naked in front of them so they can stare at you.

¹⁵ Then suddenly Amnon’s love turned to hate, and he hated her even more than he had loved her. “Get out of here!” he snarled at her.

⁹ That is why the city was called Babel,^[a] because that is where the Lord confused the people with different languages. In this way he scattered them all over the world.