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You burn with lust among the oaks
    and under every spreading tree,
sacrificing your children in the ravines
    and under the clefts in the rocks.[a]
The smooth stones of the ravines will be your portion;
    these are your lot.
To them you poured out libations
    and brought forth your cereal offerings.
    Should such acts appease me?
Upon a high and lofty mountain
    you have placed your bed,
    and there you went up to offer sacrifice.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 57:5 The reference is to fertility cults.