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!
44. They come as if coming to a prostitute, first to Oholah, and then to Oholibah, those traitorous women.
45. But men who do the right thing will judge them, and they will be punished as adulterers and murderers, because they are in fact adulterers, and blood is on their hands.
46. The Lord God proclaims: Bring up an assembly against them, and decree terror and plunder for them.
47. Let the assembly stone them! Let them carve them up with their swords, slay their sons and daughters, and burn their houses with fire!
48. So I will put an end to betrayal in the land. Taking warning, no woman will betray as you have done.
49. You will be held accountable for your betrayals, and you will bear the sins of your idols. Then you will know that I am the Lord God.