5. who console yourselves with idols under every green tree,who slaughter children in the valleys, under the rocky cliffs?
6. You belong with the smooth talkers in the valley;they, they are your lot.For them you poured out a drink offering,and presented a grain offering.Should I condone these things?
7. On a very high mountain you made your bed.You went up there to offer a sacrifice.
8. Behind the door and the doorpostyou placed your symbols.You abandoned me and lay down,making room in your bedand making deals for yourself with them.You loved their bed;you saw their nakedness.
9. You went down to Molech with oil,and you slathered on your ointments;you sent your messengers far away,sent them down to the underworld.
10. Worn out by all your efforts,yet you wouldn’t say, "This is useless."You found new strength;therefore, you weren’t tired.
11. Whom did you dread and fear so that you lied,didn’t remember me or give me a thought?Isn’t it because I was silent and closed my eyesthat you stopped fearing me?
12. I will bring evidence about your righteousness and your actions;they won’t help you.
13. When you cry out,let those things you’ve gathered save you!The wind will lift them all;one breath will take them away.but those taking refuge in me will inherit the land and possess my holy mountain.
14. It will be said: "Survey, survey; build a road!Remove barriers from my people’s road!"
15. The one who is high and lifted up,who lives forever, whose name is holy, says:I live on high, in holiness,and also with the crushed and the lowly,reviving the spirit of the lowly,reviving the heart of those who have been crushed.
16. I won’t always accuse,nor will I be enraged forever.It is my own doing that their spirit is exhausted—I gave them breath!
17. I was enraged about their illegal profits;I struck them; in rage I withdrew from them.Yet they went on wandering wherever they wanted.
18. I have seen their ways, but I will heal them.I will guide them,and reward them with comfort.And for those who mourn,