⁴ Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. ^(A)They became mine, and they ^(B)bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is ^(C)Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

^11 (A)“Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became ^(B)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, ^(C)all of them desirable young men. ¹³ And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way. ¹⁴ But she carried her whoring further. She saw men ^(D)portrayed on the wall, the ^(E)images of ^(F)the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion, ¹⁵ wearing belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, a likeness of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea. ¹⁶ When she saw them, she lusted after them and ^(G)sent messengers to them ^(H)in Chaldea. ¹⁷ And the Babylonians came to her ^(I)into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, ^(J)she turned from them in disgust. ¹⁸ When she carried on her whoring so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister. ¹⁹ Yet she increased her whoring, ^(K)remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt ²⁰ and lusted after her lovers there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses. ²¹ Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed^[b] your young breasts.”

²² Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I will stir up against you your lovers ^(L)from whom you turned in disgust, ^(M)and I will bring them against you from every side: ²³ the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, ^(N)Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, ^(O)desirable young men, ^(P)governors and commanders all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses. ²⁴ And they shall come against you from the north^[c] with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. ^(Q)They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and ^(R)I will commit the judgment to them, and ^(S)they shall judge you according to their judgments. ²⁵ And I will direct my jealousy against you, ^(T)that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. ^(U)They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire. ^26 (V)They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels. ^27 (W)Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and ^(X)your whoring begun in the land of Egypt, so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.

²⁰ They shall fall amid those ^(A)who are slain by the sword. Egypt^[a] is delivered to the sword; drag her away, and ^(B)all her multitudes. ²¹ The mighty chiefs ^(C)shall speak of them, ^(D)with their helpers, out of the midst of Sheol: ‘They have come down, they lie still, ^(E)the uncircumcised, ^(F)slain by the sword.’

^22 (G)“Assyria is there, and all her company, ^(H)its graves all around it, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, ²³ whose graves are set in ^(I)the uttermost parts of the pit; and her company is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, ^(J)who spread terror ^(K)in the land of the living.