40. They even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.
41. You sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.
42. The sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and with men of the common sort, drunkards were brought from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands of the women, and beautiful crowns on their heads.
43. “Then I said of her who was worn out by adultery, Now they will continue to use her for a whore, even her!
44. For they have gone in to her, as men go in to a prostitute. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, lewd women!
45. But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.”
46. For thus says the Lord God: “Bring up a vast host against them, and make them an object of terror and a plunder.
47. And the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses.
48. Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.
49. And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and you shall know that I am the Lord God.”