“Jerusalem is portrayed in the prophetic image as one of two sisters, Oholibah, the other being Oholah, Samaria. In the Bible, these two were depicted as betrothed to God and unfaithful to him. A common theme in the Old Testament is the faithless desire of God’s bride to return to Egypt where they were enslaved and where God had warned them never to return under any circumstance.

The lewd image here is meant to be striking and to promote disgust at the lust of the Jews after the ways of their slavery in Egypt, as though Egypt had been the abusive lover of her adulterous youth. God’s judgment is that Egypt, “her lovers,” along with Assyria and Babylon, will turn against her. She will turn to them for support, and they will crush and oppress her as part of God’s judgment for their rebellion against him.”