“Yet Oholibah increased
Her prostitution activities.
She remembered
The days of her youth,
When she played
The whore
In the land of Egypt.
She lusted
After her lovers there.
Their sexual organs were
Like those of donkeys.
Their sexual emissions were
Like those of stallions.
Thus you longed
For the lewdness
Of your youth.
The Egyptians fondled
Your bosom.
They caressed
Your young breasts.”
Yahweh, via Ezekiel, portrayed Oholibah, Jerusalem, as a sex starved female teenager. However, now she had become a full fledged prostitute. She remembered the good old days when she was a young whore in Egypt. There she lusted after all her lovers, who seem to have been well endowed. Yahweh compared their sexual prowess with donkeys and stallions. Thus Jerusalem longed for the days of her youth when her Egyptians lovers fondled and caressed her breasts.
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The taunt against Babylon (Jer 50:11-50:13)
“‘Though you rejoice,
Though you exult,
O plunderers of my heritage,
Though you frisk about
Like a heifer
On the grass,
Though you neigh
Like stallions,
Your mother
Shall be utterly shamed.
She who bore you
Shall be disgraced.
O!
She shall be
The last of the nations,
A wilderness,
A dry land,
A desert.
Because of the wrath
Of Yahweh,
She shall not be inhabited.
But she shall be
An utter desolation.
Everyone who passes
By Babylon
Shall be appalled.
They will hiss
Because of all her wounds.”
Then Yahweh via Jeremiah taunted Babylon, by indicating how they thought that they were superior with their plundering and rejoicing. They were like young heifers and stallions doing whatever they wanted to do. Now their mothers will be shamed and disgraced. They will become the last of the countries, as their land will become a wilderness, a dry land, like a desert. The wrath of Yahweh will not be held back. Babylon will be deserted and become an utter desolation. Everyone who passes by her will be appalled. They will hiss at all the wounds that they would see.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 