And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
She was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them - namely, from the Chaldeans: turning again to the Egyptians (Ezekiel 23:19), trying by their help to throw off her solemn engagements to Babylon (cf. Jeremiah 37:5; Jeremiah 37:7; 2 Kings 24:7).