I will put a stop to your lust and to the obscenities you have committed ever since you were in Egypt. You won't look at any more idols or think about Egypt any more."

All the cities of Israel will be destroyed, so that all their altars and their idols will be smashed to pieces, their incense altars will be shattered, and everything they made will disappear.

I will scatter your people to every country and nation and will put an end to your evil actions.

I will sprinkle clean water on you and make you clean from all your idols and everything else that has defiled you.

I will destroy the cities in your land and tear down all your defenses.

I will destroy your idols and sacred stone pillars; no longer will you worship the things that you yourselves have made.

all human beings and animals, birds and fish. I will bring about the downfall of the wicked. I will destroy everyone, and no survivors will be left. I, the LORD, have spoken.

"When I am angry and furious with you and punish you, all the nations around you will be terrified. They will look at you with disgust and make fun of you.

They will burn your houses down and let crowds of women see your punishment. I will make you stop being a prostitute and make you stop giving gifts to your lovers.

Then all the people of Israel will hear what happened; they will be afraid, and no one will ever again do such an evil thing.

At night I long for you with all my heart; when you judge the earth and its people, they will all learn what justice is.

Now, all of this is an example for us, to warn us not to desire evil things, as they did,

We must not be guilty of sexual immorality, as some of them were---and in one day twenty-three thousand of them fell dead.

We must not complain, as some of them did---and they were destroyed by the Angel of Death.

God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, destroying them with fire, and made them an example of what will happen to the godless.