³⁶The Lord said to me: “Human, will you judge Samaria and Jerusalem, showing them their hateful acts? ³⁷They are guilty of adultery and murder. They have taken part in adultery with their idols. They even offered our children as sacrifices in the fire to be food for these idols. ³⁸They have also done this to me: They made my Temple unclean at the same time they dishonored my Sabbaths. ³⁹They sacrificed their children to their idols. Then they entered my Temple at that very time to dishonor it. That is what they did inside my Temple!

⁴⁰“They even sent for men from far away, who came after a messenger was sent to them. The two sisters bathed themselves for them, painted their eyes, and put on jewelry. ⁴¹They sat on a fine bed with a table set before it, on which they put my incense and my oil.

⁴²“There was the noise of a reckless crowd in the city. Common people gathered, and drunkards were brought from the desert. They put bracelets on the wrists of the two sisters and beautiful crowns on their heads. ⁴³Then I said about the one who was worn out by her acts of adultery, ‘Let them continue their sexual sins with her. She is nothing but a prostitute.’ ⁴⁴They kept going to her as they would go to a prostitute. So they continued to go to Samaria and Jerusalem, these shameful women. ⁴⁵But men who do right will punish them as they punish women who take part in adultery and who murder people, because they are guilty of adultery and murder.

⁴⁶“This is what the Lord God says: Bring together a mob against Samaria and Jerusalem, and hand them over to be frightened and robbed. ⁴⁷Let the mob kill them by throwing stones at them, and let them cut them down with their swords. Let them kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses down.

⁴⁸“So I will put an end to sexual sins in the land. Then all women will be warned, and they will not do the sexual sins you have done. ⁴⁹You will be punished for your sexual sins and the sin of worshiping idols. Then you will know that I am the Lord God.”

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