^{36 Ref} And Jehovah saith unto me, `Son of man, Dost thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? Declare then to them their abominations.

^{37 Ref} For they have committed adultery, And blood `is' in their hands, With their idols they committed adultery, And also their sons whom they bore to Me, They caused to pass over to them for food.

^{38 Ref} Again, this they have done to Me, They defiled My sanctuary in that day, And My sabbaths they have polluted.

^{39 Ref} And in their slaughtering their sons to their idols They also come in unto My sanctuary in that day to pollute it, And lo, thus they have done in the midst of My house,

^{40 Ref} And also that they send to men coming from afar, Unto whom a messenger is sent, And lo, they have come in for whom thou hast washed, Painted thine eyes, and put on adornment.

^{41 Ref} And thou hast sat on a couch of honour, And a table arrayed before it, And My perfume and My oil placed on it.

^{42 Ref} And the voice of a multitude at ease `is' with her, And unto men of the common people are brought in Sabeans from the wilderness, And they put bracelets on their hands, And a beauteous crown on their heads.

^{43 Ref} And I say of the worn-out one in adulteries, Now they commit her whoredoms -- she also!

^{44 Ref} And they come in unto her, As the coming in unto a whorish woman, So they have come in unto Aholah, And unto Aholibah -- the wicked women.

^{45 Ref} As to righteous men, they judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, And the judgment of women shedding blood, For they `are' adulteresses, And blood `is' in their hands.

^{46 Ref} For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Bring up against them an assembly, And give them to trembling and to spoiling.

^{47 Ref} And they have cast at them the stone of the assembly, And cut them with their swords, Their sons and their daughters they do slay, And their houses with fire they burn.

^{48 Ref} And I have caused wickedness to cease from the land, And instructed have been all the women, And they do not according to your wickedness.