7. You go to the high mountains to offer sacrifices and have sex.
8. You set up your obscene idols just inside your front doors. You forsake me; you take off your clothes and climb into your large beds with your lovers, whom you pay to sleep with you. And there you satisfy your lust.
9. You put on your perfumes and ointments and go to worship the god Molech. To find gods to worship, you send messengers far and wide, even to the world of the dead.
10. You wear yourselves out looking for other gods, but you never give up. You think your obscene idols give you strength, and so you never grow weak.
11. The Lord says, “Who are these gods that make you afraid, so that you tell me lies and forget me completely? Have you stopped honouring me because I have kept silent for so long?
12. You think that what you do is right, but I will expose your conduct, and your idols will not be able to help you.
13. When you cry for help, let those idols of yours save you! A puff of wind will carry them off! But those who trust in me will live in the land and will worship me in my Temple.”
14. The Lord says, “Let my people return to me. Remove every obstacle from their path! Build the road, and make it ready!
15. “I am the high and holy God, who lives for ever. I live in a high and holy place, but I also live with people who are humble and repentant, so that I can restore their confidence and hope.
16. I gave my people life, and I will not continue to accuse them or be angry with them for ever.