²² An evil man is held captive by his own sins;
    they are ropes that catch and hold him.

¹¹     to worship other gods.

“Wine has robbed my people
    of their understanding.
¹² They ask a piece of wood for advice!
    They think a stick can tell them the future!
Longing after idols
    has made them foolish.
They have played the prostitute,
    serving other gods and deserting their God.
¹³ They offer sacrifices to idols on the mountaintops.
    They go up into the hills to burn incense
    in the pleasant shade of oaks, poplars, and terebinth trees.

“That is why your daughters turn to prostitution,
    and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
¹⁴ But why should I punish them
    for their prostitution and adultery?
For your men are doing the same thing,
    sinning with whores and shrine prostitutes.
O foolish people! You refuse to understand,
    so you will be destroyed.

⁵ The godly are directed by honesty;
    the wicked fall beneath their load of sin.

³¹ Therefore, they must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way,
    choking on their own schemes.
³² For simpletons turn away from me—to death.
    Fools are destroyed by their own complacency.

¹⁸ But these people set an ambush for themselves;
    they are trying to get themselves killed.

¹⁵ The nations have fallen into the pit they dug for others.
    Their own feet have been caught in the trap they set.