What are you doing, you devastated one?
Why dress yourself in scarlet
and put on jewels of gold?
Why highlight your eyes with makeup?
You adorn yourself in vain.
Your lovers despise you;
they want to kill you.

And you, O desolate one,
what do you mean that you dress in scarlet,
that you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold,
that you enlarge your eyes with paint?
In vain you beautify yourself.
Your lovers despise you;
they seek your life.

They are well-fed, lusty stallions,
each neighing for another man’s wife.

They were well-fed, lusty stallions,
each neighing for his neighbor’s wife.

This is what the Sovereign  Lord says: because you poured out your lust and exposed your naked body in your promiscuity with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because you gave them your children’s blood,

Thus says the Lord  God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,

‘Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was still mine; and she lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians – warriors

“Oholah played the whore while she was mine, and she lusted after her lovers the Assyrians, warriors

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.

She bestowed her whoring upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone after whom she lusted.

‘Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians, for whom she lusted.

Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted.

‘Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.

“Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became more corrupt than her sister in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister.

She too lusted after the Assyrians – governors and commanders, warriors in full dress, mounted horsemen, all handsome young men.

She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

When she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

and lusted after her lovers there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses.

My people come to you, as they usually do, and sit before you to hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. Their mouths speak of love, but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain.

And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.

Indeed, to them you are nothing more than one who sings love songs with a beautiful voice and plays an instrument well, for they hear your words but do not put them into practice.

And behold, you are to them like one who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument, for they hear what you say, but they will not do it.

In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.