² “Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother.^(A)

³ They became prostitutes in Egypt,^(A) engaging in prostitution^(B) from their youth.^(C) In that land their breasts were fondled and their virgin bosoms caressed.^(D)

⁵ “Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was still mine; and she lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians^(A)—warriors^(B)

⁶ clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all of them handsome young men, and mounted horsemen.

¹⁷ Then the Babylonians^(A) came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.^(B)