37. They have committed adultery and murder — adultery with idols and murder of the children they bore me. They sacrificed my children to their idols.
38. And that is not all they did. They profaned my Temple and broke the Sabbath, which I had established.
39. The very day that they killed my children as sacrifices to idols, they came to my Temple and profaned it!
40. “Again and again they sent messengers to invite men to come from a great distance, and the men came. The two sisters would bathe and put on eye shadow and jewellery.
41. They would sit on a beautiful couch, and in front of them they would have a table covered with good things, including the incense and the olive oil that I had given them.
42. The sound of a carefree crowd could be heard, a group of men brought in from the desert. They put bracelets on the women's arms and beautiful crowns on their heads.
43. And I said to myself that they were using as a prostitute a woman worn out by adultery.
44. They went back to these prostitutes again and again. They went back to Oholah and Oholibah, those immoral women.
45. Righteous men will condemn them on the charge of adultery and murder, because they practise adultery and their hands are stained with blood.”
46. This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “Bring a mob to terrorize them and rob them.
47. Let the mob stone them and attack them with swords, kill their children, and burn down their houses.
48. Throughout the land I will put a stop to immorality, as a warning to every woman not to commit adultery as they did.
49. And you two sisters — I will punish you for your immorality and your sin of worshipping idols. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.”