CAB(i)
2 Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother:
3 and they went a-whoring in Egypt in their youth. There their breasts fell, there they lost their virginity.
4 And their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they were Mine, and bore sons and daughters: and as for their names, Samaria was Oholah, and Jerusalem was Oholibah.
5 And Oholah went a-whoring from Me, and doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians that were her neighbors,
6 clothed with purple, princes and captains; they were young men and choice, all horsemen riding on horses.
7 And she bestowed her fornication upon them; all were choice sons of the Assyrians: and on whomsoever she doted herself, with them she defiled herself in all their devices.
8 And she forsook not her fornication with the Egyptians: for in her youth they committed fornication with her, and they deflowered her, and poured out their fornication upon her.
9 Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the children of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.
10 They uncovered her shame; they took her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword; and she became a byword among women; and they wrought vengeance in her for the sake of the daughters.
11 And her sister Oholibah saw it, and she indulged in her fondness more corruptly than she, and in her fornication more than the fornication of her sister.
12 She doted upon the sons of the Assyrian, princes and captains, her neighbors, clothed with fine linen, horsemen riding on horses; they were all choice young men.
13 And I saw that they were defiled, that the two had one way.
14 And she increased her fornication, and she saw men painted on the wall, likenesses of the Chaldeans painted with a pencil,
15 having variegated belts on their loins, having also richly dyed turbans upon their heads; all had a princely appearance, the likeness of the children of the Chaldeans, of their native land.
16 And she doted upon them as soon as she saw them, and sent forth messengers to them into the land of the Chaldeans.
17 And the sons of Babylon came to her, into the bed of rest, and they defiled her in her fornication, and she was defiled by them, and her soul was alienated from them.
18 And she exposed her fornication, and exposed her shame. And My soul was alienated from her, even as My soul was alienated from her sister.
19 And you multiplied your fornication, so as to call to remembrance the days of your youth, in which you committed harlotry in Egypt,
20 and you doted upon the Chaldeans, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and their members as the members of horses.
21 And you looked upon the iniquity of your youth, the things which you did in Egypt in your lodgings, where were the breasts of your youth.