² They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served^(A) and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped.^(B) They will not be gathered up or buried,^(C) but will be like dung lying on the ground.^(D)

⁴ Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars^(A) will be smashed; and I will slay your people in front of your idols.^(B)

⁶ Wherever you live,^(A) the towns will be laid waste and the high places^(B) demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and devastated, your idols^(C) smashed and ruined, your incense altars^(D) broken down, and what you have made wiped out.^(E)

¹⁶ He then brought me into the inner court^(A) of the house of the Lord, and there at the entrance to the temple, between the portico and the altar,^(B) were about twenty-five men. With their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, they were bowing down to the sun^(C) in the east.^(D)