Ezekiel 23:13-23

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹³ And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way. ¹⁴ But she carried her harlotry further; she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chalde′ans portrayed in vermilion, ¹⁵ girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, a picture of Babylonians whose native land was Chalde′a. ¹⁶ When she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers to them in Chalde′a. ¹⁷ And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their lust; and after she was polluted by them, she turned from them in disgust. ¹⁸ When she carried on her harlotry so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned from her sister. ¹⁹ Yet she increased her harlotry, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt ²⁰ and doted upon her paramours there, whose members were like those of asses, and whose issue was like that of horses. ²¹ Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians^[a] handled your bosom and pressed^[b] your young breasts.”

²² Therefore, O Ohol′ibah, thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I will rouse against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side: ²³ the Babylonians and all the Chalde′ans, Pekod and Sho′a and Ko′a, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and commanders all of them, officers and warriors,^[c] all of them riding on horses.