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Behind the door and the doorpost
    you have displayed your pagan symbols.
Forsaking me, you have uncovered your bed;
    you climbed into it and opened it wide.
You struck a profitable bargain
    with those whose beds you love,
    and you gazed endlessly at their nakedness.
You approached the king with oil,
    having lavished your body with perfumes.
You sent forth your procurers far and wide,
    even to the depths of Sheol.[a]
10 Although exhausted by your endless travels,
    you never said, “It is useless.”
You realized that your desire had been rekindled,
    and so you never gave up.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 57:9 If there is a play on the Hebrew word melek, Molech is perhaps the king (see 2 Ki 23:10); the second part of the verse alludes to the worship of underworld divinities or of the dead.