That is why you will be punished. You longed for lovers in other nations. You made yourself impure by worshiping their gods.

人必向你行这些事；因为你随从外邦人行邪淫，被他们的偶像玷污了。

人必向你行这些事；因为你随从外邦人行淫，用他们的偶像玷污自己。

人必向你行这些事；因为你随从外邦人行淫，用他们的偶像玷污自己。

因为你与各国苟合，被他们的偶像玷污，这些事必临到你身上。

这些事要行在你身上，因为你随从列国行淫，被他们的偶像玷污了自己。

人必向你行這些事；因為你隨從外邦人行邪淫，被他們的偶像玷污了。

人必向你行這些事；因為你隨從外邦人行淫，用他們的偶像玷污自己。

人必向你行這些事；因為你隨從外邦人行淫，用他們的偶像玷污自己。

因為你與各國苟合，被他們的偶像玷污，這些事必臨到你身上。

這些事要行在你身上，因為你隨從列國行淫，被他們的偶像玷污了自己。

這些事必臨到你身上，因為你跟着外國人走而行淫，被他們的偶像玷污了。

爾遭斯事、因爾狥欲、從異邦人、為其偶像所玷、

我降斯罰、因爾狥欲、從異邦人、拜厥偶像、為其所玷、

爾遭斯災、原文作以此行於爾因爾徇欲從異邦人、拜其偶像、自染污穢、

have brought this on you, because you lusted after the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.

have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.

You brought all this on yourself by prostituting yourself to other nations, defiling yourself with all their idols.

These things will be done to you because you acted like a prostitute with the nations, defiling yourself with their idols.

These things will be done to you because you have adulterously pursued the nations, because you have defiled yourself with their idols.

I will do these things to you because you have gone as a harlot after the Gentiles, because you have become defiled by their idols.

These things shall be done unto thee, for that thou hast played the harlot after the nations, and because thou art polluted with their idols.

These things will be done to you because you acted like a prostitute with the nations, defiling yourself with their idols.

I will do these[ things] unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen,[ and] because thou art polluted with their idols.

I will do these things to you because you engaged in prostitution with the nations, polluting yourself with their idols.

These things will be done to you, because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols.

You will be taken away to those nations as prisoners. Those of you who escape will remember me. You will recall how much pain your unfaithful hearts gave me. You turned away from me. Your eyes longed to see the statues of your gods. You will hate yourselves because of all the evil things you have done. I hate those things too.

When they say this, here is what you should tell them.‘ I did it because your people of long ago deserted me,’ announces the Lord.‘ They followed other gods. They served them and worshiped them. They deserted me. They did not obey my law.But you have done more evil things than they did. All of you are doing what your stubborn and evil hearts want you to do. You are not obeying me.

She gave herself as a prostitute to all Assyria’s finest warriors. She made herself impure with the statues of the gods of everyone she longed for.

She too longed for the men of Assyria. They included governors and commanders. They included soldiers who wore fancy uniforms. They also included men who rode horses. All of them were young and handsome.I saw that she too made herself impure. So both sisters did the same evil things.“ But Oholibah went even further with her sexual sins. She saw pictures of men drawn on a wall. They were figures of Babylonians drawn in red.They had belts around their waists. They wore flowing turbans on their heads. All of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers. They were from the land of the Chaldeans.As soon as she saw the pictures, she longed for the men. So she sent messengers to them in Babylon.Then the Babylonians came to her. They went to bed with her. They had sex with her. They made her impure when they had sex with her. After they did it, she became sick of them. So she turned away from them.She acted like a prostitute who had no shame at all. She openly showed her naked body. I became sick of what she was doing. So I turned away from her. I had also turned away from her sister.But Oholibah offered her body to her lovers again and again. She remembered the days when she was a young prostitute in Egypt.There she had longed for her lovers. Their private parts seemed as big as those of donkeys. And their flow of semen appeared to be as much as that of horses.So you wanted to return to the days when you were young. You longed for the time when you first became impure in Egypt. That was when you allowed your breasts to be kissed. And you permitted your young breasts to be touched.”

Instead, they mixed with those nations and adopted their ways.They worshiped statues of their gods. That became a trap for them.They sacrificed their sons and daughters as offerings to false gods.They killed those who weren’t guilty of doing anything wrong. They killed their own sons and daughters. They sacrificed them as offerings to statues of the gods of Canaan. The land became“ unclean” because of the blood of their children.

“ People from many nations will pass by this city. They will ask one another,‘ Why has the Lord done such a thing to this great city?’And the answer will be,‘ This happened because of what its people have done. They have turned away from the covenant the Lord their God made with them. They have worshiped other gods. And they have served them.’ ”

Why do you go to Egypt to drink water from the Nile River? Why do you go to Assyria to drink from the Euphrates River?You will be punished because you have sinned. You will be corrected for turning away from me. I am the Lord your God. If you desert me, bad things will happen to you. If you do not respect me, you will suffer bitterly. I want you to understand that,” announces the Lord who rules over all.“ Long ago you broke off the yoke I put on you. You tore off the ropes I tied you up with. You said,‘ I won’t serve you!’ In fact, on every high hill you lay down like a prostitute. You worshiped other gods under every green tree.