'Therefore, [as] I live,' says the Lord GOD, 'surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish [you;] My eye will not spare, nor will I have any pity.

"You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as [if that were] too little, you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.

"[As] I live," says the Lord GOD, "neither your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done.

"that you may bear your own shame and be disgraced by all that you did when you comforted them.

But they paid no attention, and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.

"Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations (he has acted more wickedly than all the Amorites who [were] before him, and has also made Judah sin with his idols),

So Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.

For pass beyond the coasts of Cyprus and see, Send to Kedar and consider diligently, And see if there has been such [a thing.]

Has a nation changed [its] gods, Which [are] not gods? But My people have changed their Glory For [what] does not profit.