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You put your images behind the doors of your rooms.
Then you turn your backs to me,
    and you get into bed with your false gods.
You have made an agreement with them.
You pay money to have sex with your lovers.
    You love to see their bare bodies.
You take olive oil as a gift to your king,
    and also many perfumes.[a]
You send your people far away
    to get news of other gods.
You even talk to the spirits of dead people.
10 You become very tired,
    because you travel so far.
But you would never say,
    “This is useless!”
Instead, you find new strength,
    and you do not stop.

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Footnotes

  1. 57:9 ‘your king’ may be Molech, the false god that they worshipped.