34. They did not destroy the peoples, as Adonai had commanded them.
35. Instead they mingled with the nations and learned their practices.
36. They worshipped their idols, which became a snare to them.
37. They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
38. They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and their daughters, sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. So the land was desecrated with blood.
39. So they defiled themselves by their deeds, and prostituted themselves by their practices.
40. Therefore the anger of Adonai was kindled against His people, and He abhorred His inheritance.
41. He handed them to the nations— those who hated them ruled over them.
42. Their enemies oppressed them, so they were subdued under their hand.
43. Many times He delivered them, but they kept rebelling deliberately, and so sank low into their iniquity.