1. The word of the Lord came again to me, saying:
2. Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.
3. And they committed harlotries in Egypt. They committed harlotries in their youth. There their breasts were pressed, and there their virgin bosom was handled.
4. Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister. And they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem is Oholibah.
5. Oholah played the harlot when she was Mine. And she lusted after her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,
6. who were clothed in purple, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
7. Thus she committed her harlotries with them, with all those who were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.
8. She did not forsake her harlotries from the time in Egypt. For in her youth they lay with her, and they handled her virgin bosom and poured their harlotry upon her.
9. Therefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians after whom she doted.
10. They uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters and killed her with the sword. And she became a byword among women, for they had executed judgments on her.
11. Now her sister Oholibah saw this, but she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her harlotries more than her sister in her harlotries.
12. She lusted after the Assyrians her neighbors, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.