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12 My people consult their wooden idol
and their divining rod informs them.
For a spirit of prostitution
    leads them astray
and they have been a prostitute—
    out from under their God.
13 They sacrifice on the mountaintops
and on the high places they burn incense
    under oak poplar, and terebinth—
    for its shade is good.
Therefore your daughters are prostitutes
and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
14 Will I not punish your daughters for prostitution
    or your daughters-in-law for adultery?
For they consort with prostitutes,
    and they sacrifice with cult prostitutes.
A people without understanding
    will be thrust down.

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