The Sovereign LORD says, "Israel, long ago you rejected my authority; you refused to obey me and worship me. On every high hill and under every green tree you worshiped fertility gods.

Look up at the hilltops. Is there any place where you have not acted like a prostitute? You waited for lovers along the roadside, as an Arab waits for victims in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution.

You used some of your clothes to decorate your places of worship, and just like a prostitute, you gave yourself to everyone.

You dragged your beauty through the mud. You offered yourself to everyone who came by, and you were more of a prostitute every day.

I brought them to the land I had promised to give them. When they saw the high hills and green trees, they offered sacrifices at all of them. They made me angry by the sacrifices they burned and by the wine they brought as offerings.

I asked them: What are these high places where you go? So they have been called 'High Places' ever since.

The Babylonians came to have sex with her. They used her and defiled her so much that finally she became disgusted with them.

They would sit on a beautiful couch, and in front of them they would have a table covered with good things, including the incense and the olive oil that I had given them.