The courtyard there was decorated with blue and white cotton curtains, tied by cords of fine purple linen to silver rings on marble columns. Couches made of gold and silver had been placed in the courtyard, which was paved with white marble, red feldspar, shining mother-of-pearl, and blue turquoise.

I've covered my bed with sheets of colored linen from Egypt.

I've perfumed it with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

You go to the high mountains to offer sacrifices and have sex.

At every place of worship people sleep on clothing that they have taken from the poor as security for debts. In the temple of their God they drink wine which they have taken from those who owe them money.

How terrible it will be for you that stretch out on your luxurious couches, feasting on veal and lamb!

They alone will enter my Temple, serve at my altar, and conduct the Temple worship.

"But it will be different for you that forsake me, who ignore Zion, my sacred hill, and worship Gad and Meni, the gods of luck and fate.

This is how---by offering worthless food on my altar. Then you ask, 'How have we failed to respect you?' I will tell you---by showing contempt for my altar.

You took the embroidered clothes I gave you and put them on the images, and you offered to the images the olive oil and incense I had given you.

I gave you food---the best flour, olive oil, and honey---but you offered it as a sacrifice to win the favor of idols." This is what the Sovereign LORD says.

I've perfumed it with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

We will do everything that we said we would. We will offer sacrifices to our goddess, the Queen of Heaven, and we will pour out wine offerings to her, just as we and our ancestors, our king and our leaders, used to do in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. Then we had plenty of food, we were prosperous, and had no troubles.

She would never acknowledge that I am the one who gave her the grain, the wine, the olive oil, and all the silver and gold that she used in the worship of Baal.

So at harvest time I will take back my gifts of grain and wine, and will take away the wool and the linen I gave her for clothing.