38. “They also did this to Me: They have defiled My set-apart place on the same day, and they have profaned My Sabbaths.
39. “For when they had slain their children for their idols, on the same day they came into My set-apart place to profane it. And see, that is what they did in the midst of My House.
40. “And they even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent. And see, they came – for whom you washed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.
41. “And you sat on a splendid couch, with a table prepared before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil.
42. “And the sound of a crowd at ease was with her, and drunkards were brought from the wilderness with men of the commonest sort. And they put bracelets on their wrists and pretty crowns on their heads.
43. “Then I said concerning the one worn out in adulteries, ‘Now let them commit her whorings, even hers!’
44. “And they went in to her, as men go in to a woman who is a whore. Thus they went in to Oholah and Oholiḇah, the wicked women.
45. “But let righteous men judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and the judgment of women who shed blood, for they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.
46. “For thus said the Master יהוה, ‘Bring up an assembly against them, give them up to maltreatment and plunder.