⁷ “‘I will make known my holy name among my people Israel. I will no longer let my holy name be profaned,^(A) and the nations will know^(B) that I the Lord am the Holy One in Israel.^(C)

⁷ He said: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne^(A) and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live among the Israelites forever. The people of Israel will never again defile^(B) my holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and the funeral offerings^[a] for their kings at their death.^[b](C)

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:^(D) ‘I swear^(E) 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^(F) Lord lives.”^(G)