² “Lift up your eyes to ^(E)the desolate heights and see:
Where have you not ^[a]lain with men?
^(F)By the road you have sat for them
Like an Arabian in the wilderness;
^(G)And you have polluted the land
With your harlotries and your wickedness.
³ Therefore the ^(H)showers have been withheld,
And there has been no latter rain.
You have had a ^(I)harlot’s forehead;
You refuse to be ashamed.
⁴ Will you not from this time cry to Me,
‘My Father, You are ^(J)the guide of ^(K)my youth?
^5 (L)Will He remain angry forever?
Will He keep it to the end?’
Behold, you have spoken and done evil things,
As you were able.”

² “Son of man, there were ^(A)two women,
The daughters of one mother.
^3 (B)They committed harlotry in Egypt,
They committed harlotry in ^(C)their youth;
Their breasts were there embraced,
Their virgin bosom was there pressed.
⁴ Their names: ^[a]Oholah the elder and ^[b]Oholibah ^(D)her sister;
^(E)They were Mine,
And they bore sons and daughters.
As for their names,
Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem is Oholibah.

⁹ “Therefore I have delivered her
Into the hand of her lovers,
Into the hand of the ^(H)Assyrians,
For whom she lusted.
¹⁰ They uncovered her nakedness,
Took away her sons and daughters,
And slew her with the sword;
She became a byword among women,
For they had executed judgment on her.

¹² “She lusted for the neighboring ^(K)Assyrians,
^(L)Captains and rulers,
Clothed most gorgeously,
Horsemen riding on horses,
All of them desirable young men.
¹³ Then I saw that she was defiled;
Both took the same way.
¹⁴ But she increased her harlotry;
She looked at men portrayed on the wall,
Images of ^(M)Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,
¹⁵ Girded with belts around their waists,
Flowing turbans on their heads,
All of them looking like captains,
In the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea,
The land of their nativity.
^16 (N)As soon as her eyes saw them,
She lusted for them
And sent ^(O)messengers to them in Chaldea.

¹⁷ “Then the ^[c]Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love,
And they defiled her with their immorality;
So she was defiled by them, ^(P)and alienated herself from them.
¹⁸ She revealed her harlotry and uncovered her nakedness.
Then ^(Q)I ^(R)alienated Myself from her,
As I had alienated Myself from her sister.

¹⁹ “Yet she multiplied her harlotry
In calling to remembrance the days of her youth,
^(S)When she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
²⁰ For she lusted for her ^[d]paramours,
Whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys,
And whose issue is like the issue of horses.
²¹ Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth,
When the ^(T)Egyptians pressed your bosom
Because of your youthful breasts.

“Where is ^(A)the certificate of your mother’s divorce,
Whom I have put away?
Or which of My ^(B)creditors is it to whom I have sold you?
For your iniquities ^(C)you have sold yourselves,
And for your transgressions your mother has been put away.

⁴ “I will not have mercy on her children,
For they are the ^(F)children of harlotry.
⁵ For their mother has played the harlot;
She who conceived them has behaved shamefully.
For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
^(G)Who give me my bread and my water,
My wool and my linen,
My oil and my drink.’