³⁷ for they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, as food for them.^{(A) 38} They have also done this to me: At that same time they defiled my sanctuary^(B) and desecrated my Sabbaths.^{(C) 39} On the very day they sacrificed their children to their idols, they entered my sanctuary and desecrated^(D) it. That is what they did in my house.^(E)

⁸ In one month I got rid of the three shepherds.

The flock detested^(A) me, and I grew weary of them