⁹ For this cause I gave her up into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians on whom her desire was fixed.

⁸ But they would not be controlled by me, and did not give ear to me; they did not put away the disgusting things to which their eyes were turned, or give up the images of Egypt: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the land of Egypt.