¹³ And they will know that I am the Lord, when their people lie slain among their idols^(A) around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak^(B)—places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.^(C)

Unfaithful Israel

⁶ During the reign of King Josiah,^(A) the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what faithless^(B) Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree^(C) and has committed adultery^(D) there.

¹⁷ “Therefore this is what the Lord says:

²³ and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images^(A) made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

²⁴ Therefore God gave them over^(B) in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.^{(C) 25} They exchanged the truth about God for a lie,^(D) and worshiped and served created things^(E) rather than the Creator—who is forever praised.^(F) Amen.^(G)

²⁶ Because of this, God gave them over^(H) to shameful lusts.^(I) Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.^{(J) 27} In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.^(K)

²⁸ Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over^(L) to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.

²⁸ When I brought them into the land^(A) I had sworn to give them and they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, made offerings that aroused my anger, presented their fragrant incense and poured out their drink offerings.^{(B) 29} Then I said to them: What is this high place^(C) you go to?’” (It is called Bamah^[a] to this day.)