Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen.
to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,
“Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves—to follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh o
who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the cle
They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shad
so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth be
What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, o
They will all be put to shame and humiliated; the makers of idols will depart together in disgrace.
Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on e
Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands.
So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual clot
Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and abominati
O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress;
“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and u
For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.