5. You worship your idols with great passionbeneath the oaks and under every green tree.You sacrifice your children down in the valleys,among the jagged rocks in the cliffs.
6. Your gods are the smooth stones in the valleys.You worship them with liquid offerings and grain offerings.They, not I, are your inheritance.Do you think all this makes me happy?
7. You have committed adultery on every high mountain.There you have worshiped idolsand have been unfaithful to me.
8. You have put pagan symbolson your doorposts and behind your doors.You have left meand climbed into bed with these detestable gods.You have committed yourselves to them.You love to look at their naked bodies.
9. You have gone to Molechwith olive oil and many perfumes,sending your agents far and wide,even to the world of the dead.
10. You grew weary in your search,but you never gave up.Desire gave you renewed strength,and you did not grow weary.
11. “Are you afraid of these idols?Do they terrify you?Is that why you have lied to meand forgotten me and my words?Is it because of my long silencethat you no longer fear me?
12. Now I will expose your so-called good deeds.None of them will help you.
13. Let’s see if your idols can save youwhen you cry to them for help.Why, a puff of wind can knock them down!If you just breathe on them, they fall over!But whoever trusts in me will inherit the landand possess my holy mountain.”
14. God says, “Rebuild the road!Clear away the rocks and stonesso my people can return from captivity.”