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 He said, “What have they seen in your house?” So Hezekiah ^[a]answered, “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 the Lord. ¹⁷ ‘Behold, the days are coming when ^(A)all that is in your house, and all that your fathers have laid up in store to this day will be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left,’ says the Lord.

¹⁹ “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, ^[a]like the ^[b]Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth. ^16 [c]When she saw them she ^(C)lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. ¹⁷ The ^[d](D)Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their harlotry. And when she had been defiled by them, ^[e]she became disgusted with them.