"'Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing that you had reached the age for love. I spread my cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the sovereign Lord, and you became mine.

Indeed! All lives are mine -- the life of the father as well as the life of the son is mine. The one who sins will die.

Oholah was the name of the older and Oholibah the name of her younger sister. They became mine, and gave birth to sons and daughters. Oholah is Samaria and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

"Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians -- warriors

The land of Egypt will become a desolate ruin. Then they will know that I am the Lord. Because he said, "The Nile is mine and I made it,"

"'You said, "These two nations, these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them," -- although the Lord was there --

"'This is what the sovereign Lord says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels will be a mina for you.