at came to her,

On the Assyraians, etc... That is, the idols of the Assyrians: for all
that is said in this chapter of the fornications of Israel and Juda, is
to be understood in a spiritual sense, of their disloyalty to the Lord,
by worshipping strange gods.

23:6. Who were clothed with blue, princes, and rulers, beautiful youths,
all horsemen, mounted upon horses.

23:7. And she committed her fornications with those chosen men, all sons
of the Assyrians: and she defiled herself with the uncleanness of all
them on whom she doted.

23:8. Moreover also she did not forsake her fornications which she had
committed in Egypt: for they also lay with her in her youth, and they
bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured out their fornication
upon her.

23:9. Therefore have I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into
the hands of the sons of the Assyrians, upon whose lust she doted.

23:10. They discovered her disgrace, took away her sons and daughters,
and slew her with the sword: and they became infamous women, and they
executed judgments in her.

23:11. And when her sister Ooliba saw this, she was mad with lust more
than she: and she carried her fornication beyond the fornication of her
sister.

23:12. Impudently prostituting herself to the children of the Assyrians,
the princes, and rulers that came to her, clothed with divers colours,
to the horsemen that rode upon horses, and to young men all of great
beauty.

23:13. And I saw that she was defiled, and that they both took one way.

23:14. And she increased her fornications: and when she had seen men
painted on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans set forth in colours,

23:15. And girded with girdles about their reins, and with dyed turbans
on their heads, the resemblance of all the captains, the likeness of the
sons of Babylon, and of the land of the Chaldeans wherein they were
born,

23:16. She doted upon them with the lust of her eyes, and she sent
messengers to them into Chaldea.

23:17. And when the sons of Babylon were come to her to the bed of love,
they defiled her with their fornications, and she was polluted by them,
and her soul was glutted with them.

23:18. And she discovered her fornications, and discovered her disgrace:
and my soul was alienated from her, as my soul was alienated from her
sister.

23:19. For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her
youth, in which she played the harlot in the land of Egyp