^{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.