23. Our worship of idols on the hillsand our religious orgies on the mountainsare a delusion.Only in the lord our Godwill Israel ever find salvation.
24. From childhood we have watchedas everything our ancestors worked for—their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters—was squandered on a delusion.
25. Let us now lie down in shameand cover ourselves with dishonor,for we and our ancestors have sinnedagainst the lord our God.From our childhood to this daywe have never obeyed him.”