⁶ clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all of them handsome young men, and mounted horsemen. ⁷ She gave herself as a prostitute to all the elite of the Assyrians and defiled herself with all the idols of everyone she lusted after.^{(A) 8} She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt,^(B) when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.^(C)