36. Then the Lord said to me, Human one, judge Oholah and Oholibah, and make known their detestable practices to them.
37. They committed adultery, so now blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols, and they even took their children whom they had borne to me and offered them up to be consumed for them.
38. They also did this to me: On the same day, they made my sanctuary unclean and made my sabbaths impure.
39. When they slaughtered their children for their idols, they came into my sanctuary and made it impure on that very same day. They actually did this inside my temple.
40. They even sent for men who came from a great distance. No sooner than a messenger was sent, they arrived! For these men you bathed, you painted your eyes, and you put on your jewelry.
41. You took your place on a splendid couch with a richly set table in front of it, and you set my incense and my oil on it.
42. The sound of a noisy crowd was around her. Men from the common multitude, drinkers of wine, were brought from the desert. They put bracelets on their wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads.
43. Then I thought, For a foolish woman they become adulterers! Incited by her seduction, they prostitute themselves—for her!