⁴² Then ^(A)God turned and gave them up to worship ^(B)the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets:

³⁹ “As for you, O house of Israel,” thus says the Lord God: ^(A)“Go, serve every one of you his idols—and hereafter—if you will not obey Me; ^(B)but profane My holy name no more with your gifts and your idols.

¹³ And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled ^(A)like the place of Tophet, because of all the houses on whose ^(B)roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and ^(C)poured out drink offerings to other gods.” ’ ”

^24 (A)Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, ^(B)to dishonor their bodies ^(C)among themselves, ²⁵ who exchanged ^(D)the truth of God ^(E)for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

²⁶ For this reason God gave them up to ^(F)vile passions. For even their ^[a]women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. ²⁷ Likewise also the ^[b]men, leaving the natural use of the ^[c]woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.

²⁸ And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things ^(G)which are not fitting;

¹⁹ And take heed, lest you ^(A)lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, ^(B)all the host of heaven, you feel driven to ^(C)worship them and serve them, which the Lord your God has ^[a]given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage.

¹⁵ while it is said:

Failure of the Wilderness Wanderers

^16 (B)For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? ¹⁷ Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, ^(C)whose corpses fell in the wilderness?