²⁵ This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You and your wives^(A) have done what you said you would do when you promised, ‘We will certainly carry out the vows we made to burn incense and pour out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven.’^(B)

“Go ahead then, do what you promised! Keep your vows!^(C)

²⁶ But hear the word of the Lord, all you Jews living in Egypt:^(A) ‘I swear^(B) by my great name,’ says the Lord, ‘that no one from Judah living anywhere in Egypt will ever again invoke my name or swear, “As surely as the Sovereign^(C) Lord lives.”^(D)

³⁸ They have also done this to me: At that same time they defiled my sanctuary^(A) and desecrated my Sabbaths.^(B)

³⁹ On the very day they sacrificed their children to their idols, they entered my sanctuary and desecrated^(A) it. That is what they did in my house.^(B)