⁷ “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have been more unruly than the nations around you and have not followed my decrees or kept my laws. You have not even^[a] conformed to the standards of the nations around you.^(A)

⁹ But Manasseh led Judah and the people of Jerusalem astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.^(A)

⁹ But the people did not listen. Manasseh led them astray, so that they did more evil^(A) than the nations^(B) the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.

¹⁰ The Lord said through his servants the prophets: ¹¹ “Manasseh king of Judah has committed these detestable sins. He has done more evil^(C) than the Amorites^(D) who preceded him and has led Judah into sin with his idols.^(E)

⁵⁴ so that you may bear your disgrace^(A) and be ashamed of all you have done in giving them comfort.

⁴⁷ You not only followed their ways and copied their detestable practices, but in all your ways you soon became more depraved than they.^{(A) 48} As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign^(B) Lord, your sister Sodom^(C) and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done.^(D)

¹¹ Therefore as surely as I live,^(A) declares the Sovereign^(B) Lord, because you have defiled my sanctuary^(C) with all your vile images^(D) and detestable practices,^(E) I myself will shave you; I will not look on you with pity or spare you.^(F)