And you shall defile the plating of your carved images of silver; and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall strew them as a menstruous cloth; you shall say to it, Go out!
Those who sanctify themselves, and puriify themselves to the gardens, each one in the midst, eaters of swine’s flesh, and the unclean thing, and the mouse, these are cut off together, a statement of Jehovah.
For long ago you broke your yoke and tore up your bonds. And you said, I will not pass by, when on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down like one doing adultery.
And Jehovah said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what the apostate Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree, and has fornicated there.
so that you may remember and be ashamed. And you will not any more open your mouth, because of your shame, when I am propitiated for you for all that you have done, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
And you will remember your evil ways and your doings that were not good, and you will despise yourselves in your own eyes for your iniquities and for your abominations.
And you shall know that I am Jehovah when their slain shall be in the midst of their idols round about their altars, on every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, the place where they gave there a soothing aroma to all their idols.
Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses. We shall not say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods! For in You the fatherless finds mercy.
Ephraim shall say, What is it to me any more with idols? I answered him, and I regarded him. I am as a green cypress tree; your fruit is found from Me.
They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains and burn incense on the hills, under oak and poplar and terebinth trees, because its shade is good. On account of this, your daughters shall be prostitutes, and your brides shall commit adultery.