¹⁴ Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, “What did these men say, and from where have they come to you?” And Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far country, from Babylon.” ¹⁵ And he said, “What have they seen in your house?” So Hezekiah said, “They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing among my treasuries that I have not shown them.”

¹⁶ Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of Yahweh. ¹⁷ ‘Behold, the days are coming when ^(A)all that is in your house, and all that your fathers have treasured up to this day will be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left,’ says Yahweh.

¹⁹ “Now as for you, son of man, ^[a](A)make two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; both of them will go out of one land. And ^[b]make a signpost; ^[c]make it at the head of the way to the city.

¹⁴ So she increased her harlotries. And she saw men ^(A)portrayed on the wall, images of the ^(B)Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, ¹⁵ girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, in the likeness of the ^[a]Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth. ^16 [b]And she saw them and ^(C)lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. ¹⁷ So the ^[c](D)Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their harlotry. Then she became defiled by them, and her soul became disgusted with them.