^3 (A)They played the whore in Egypt; ^(B)they played the whore ^(C)in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms^[a] handled.

⁹ Therefore ^(A)I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted. ^10 (B)These uncovered her nakedness; ^(C)they seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became ^(D)a byword among women, ^(E)when judgment had been executed on her.

^11 (F)“Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became ^(G)more corrupt than her sister^[a] in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister. ¹² She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, ^(H)all of them desirable young men. ¹³ And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way.