⁴⁵ You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of ^(A)your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. ^(B)Your mother was a Hittite and ^(C)your father an Amorite.

⁸ In one month ^(A)I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.

³⁷ For ^(A)they have committed adultery, ^(B)and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even ^(C)offered up^[a] to them for food the children whom they had borne to me. ³⁸ Moreover, this they have done to me: ^(D)they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and ^(E)profaned my Sabbaths. ³⁹ For when ^(F)they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day ^(G)they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, ^(H)this is what they did in my house.

³⁰ slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, ³¹ foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

^2 (A)“Son of man, there were ^(B)two women, the daughters of one mother.

^20 (A)And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and ^(B)these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter ²¹ that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?

^15 (A)“But you trusted in your beauty ^(B)and played the whore^[a] because of your renown ^(C)and lavished your whorings^[b] on any passerby; your beauty^[c] became his.

⁸ “When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and ^(A)I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you ^(B)and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God, ^(C)and you became mine.