³⁹ For when she had made an offering of her children to her images, she came into my holy place to make it unclean; see, this is what she has done inside my house.

⁴ And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

⁷ To have let men from strange lands, without circumcision of heart or flesh, come into my holy place, making my house unclean; and to have made the offering of my food, even the fat and the blood; and in addition to all your disgusting ways, you have let my agreement be broken.

¹¹ For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord.

²⁸ So they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, so that they might not become unclean, but might take the Passover.

¹¹ Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.

³⁸ Further, this is what she has done to me: she has made my holy place unclean and has made my Sabbaths unclean.

¹⁵ About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?

⁸ See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.

⁹ Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;

¹⁰ And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things?

¹¹ Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.

⁹ Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

⁴ And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever.

⁵ And he made altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.

⁶ More than this, he made his children go through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he made use of secret arts, and signs for reading the future, and unnatural powers, and gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers: he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.

⁷ And he put the image he had made in the house of God, the house of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: