How can you say you have not defiled yourself, that you have never worshiped Baal? Look how you sinned in the valley; see what you have done. You are like a wild camel in heat, running around loose,

There I saw the dazzling light that shows the presence of Israel's God, just as I had seen it when I was by the Chebar River.

God said to me, "Mortal man, do you see what is happening? Look at the disgusting things the people of Israel are doing here, driving me farther and farther away from my holy place. You will see even more disgraceful things than this."

and in Hades, where he was in great pain, he looked up and saw Abraham, far away, with Lazarus at his side.

The Sovereign LORD says, "Israel, long ago you rejected my authority; you refused to obey me and worship me. On every high hill and under every green tree you worshiped fertility gods.

In the land that you are taking, destroy all the places where the people worship their gods on high mountains, on hills, and under green trees.

Solomon married seven hundred princesses and also had three hundred concubines. They made him turn away from God,

Josiah desecrated the altars that King Solomon had built east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Olives, for the worship of disgusting idols---Astarte the goddess of Sidon, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Molech the god of Ammon.

You used some of your clothes to decorate your places of worship, and just like a prostitute, you gave yourself to everyone.

by the side of every road you built places to worship idols and practice prostitution.

You dragged your beauty through the mud. You offered yourself to everyone who came by, and you were more of a prostitute every day.

I brought them to the land I had promised to give them. When they saw the high hills and green trees, they offered sacrifices at all of them. They made me angry by the sacrifices they burned and by the wine they brought as offerings.

So she changed from the widow's clothes she had been wearing, covered her face with a veil, and sat down at the entrance to Enaim, a town on the road to Timnah. As she well knew, Judah's youngest son Shelah was now grown up, and yet she had not been given to him in marriage.

She was a bold and shameless woman who always walked the streets

They wait for you like robbers and cause many men to be unfaithful.

by the side of every road you built places to worship idols and practice prostitution.

You dragged your beauty through the mud. You offered yourself to everyone who came by, and you were more of a prostitute every day.

The LORD says, "If a man divorces his wife, and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, he cannot take her back again. This would completely defile the land. But, Israel, you have had many lovers, and now you want to return to me!

and was not at all ashamed. She defiled the land, and she committed adultery by worshiping stones and trees.

I brought them into a fertile land, to enjoy its harvests and its other good things. But instead they ruined my land; they defiled the country I had given them.