Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols. ¹ 

You have seen their detestable things ¹  and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.) ² 

He removed the male cultic prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the disgusting idols ¹  his ancestors ²  had made.

They worshiped ¹  the disgusting idols ²  in blatant disregard of the Lord’s command. ³ 

I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, ¹  and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

I will do this in order to capture the hearts of the house of Israel, who have alienated themselves from me on account of all their idols.’

I will do these things to you ¹  because you engaged in prostitution with the nations, polluting yourself with their idols.

They will repay you for your obscene conduct, and you will be punished for idol worship. ¹  Then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.”

So I poured my anger on them ¹  because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it. ² 

I will sprinkle you with pure water ¹  and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.

“‘As for you, O house of Israel, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Each of you go and serve your idols, ¹  if you will not listen to me. ²  But my holy name will not be profaned ³  again by your sacrifices ⁴  and your idols.

I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, ¹  and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. ²  I will abhor you. ³ 

He was so wicked he worshiped the disgusting idols, ¹  just like the Amorites ²  whom the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.)

He followed in the footsteps of his father ¹  and worshiped and bowed down to the disgusting idols ²  which his father had worshiped. ³ 

In all your dwellings, the cities will be laid waste and the high places ruined so that your altars will be laid waste and ruined, your idols will be shattered and demolished, your incense altars will be broken down, and your works wiped out. ¹ 

So I went in and looked. I noticed every figure ¹  of creeping thing and beast – detestable images ²  – and every idol of the house of Israel, engraved on the wall all around. ³ 

“Son of man, these men have erected their idols in their hearts and placed the obstacle leading to their iniquity ¹  right before their faces. Should I really allow them to seek ²  me?

“Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Return! Turn from your idols, and turn your faces away from your abominations.

oppresses the poor and the needy, ¹  commits robbery, does not give back what was given in pledge, prays to ²  idols, performs abominable acts,

He does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains, does not pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,