¹⁵ lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they ^(A)play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them ^(B)invites you and you ^(C)eat of his sacrifice, ¹⁶ and you take of ^(D)his daughters for your sons, and his daughters ^(E)play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.

¹⁶ “Thus says the whole congregation of the Lord: ‘What ^(A)treachery^[a] is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the Lord, in that you have built for yourselves an altar, ^(B)that you might rebel this day against the Lord?

⁷ O Lord, ^(A)righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.