8. You grow rich from the sins of my people, and so you want them to sin more and more.
9. You will suffer the same punishment as the people! I will punish you and make you pay for the evil you do.
10. You will eat your share of the sacrifices, but still be hungry. You will worship the fertility gods, but still have no children, because you have turned away from me to follow other gods.”
11. The Lord says, “Wine, both old and new, is robbing my people of their senses!
12. They ask for revelations from a piece of wood! A stick tells them what they want to know! They have left me. Like a woman who becomes a prostitute, they have given themselves to other gods.
13. At sacred places on the mountain tops they offer sacrifices, and on the hills they burn incense under tall, spreading trees, because the shade is so pleasant!“As a result, your daughters serve as prostitutes, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
14. Yet I will not punish them for this, because you yourselves go off with temple prostitutes, and together with them you offer pagan sacrifices. As the proverb says, ‘A people without sense will be ruined.’
15. “Even though you people of Israel are unfaithful to me, may Judah not be guilty of the same thing. Don't worship at Gilgal or Bethaven, or make promises there in the name of the living Lord.
16. The people of Israel are as stubborn as mules. How can I feed them like lambs in a meadow?
17. The people of Israel are under the spell of idols. Let them go their own way.