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You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts,
    for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me,
    and have gone up.
You have enlarged your bed
    and made you a covenant with them.
    You loved what you saw on their bed.
You went to the king with oil,
    increased your perfumes,
    sent your ambassadors far off,
    and degraded yourself even to Sheol.[a]
10 You were wearied with the length of your ways;
    yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’
You found a reviving of your strength;
    therefore you weren’t faint.

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  1. 57:9 Sheol is the place of the dead.

Behind your doors and your doorposts
    you have put your pagan symbols.
Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed,
    you climbed into it and opened it wide;
you made a pact with those whose beds you love,(A)
    and you looked with lust on their naked bodies.(B)
You went to Molek[a](C) with olive oil
    and increased your perfumes.(D)
You sent your ambassadors[b](E) far away;
    you descended to the very realm of the dead!(F)
10 You wearied(G) yourself by such going about,
    but you would not say, ‘It is hopeless.’(H)
You found renewal of your strength,(I)
    and so you did not faint.

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  1. Isaiah 57:9 Or to the king
  2. Isaiah 57:9 Or idols