In this way, I will put an end to lewdness and idolatry in the land, and my judgment will be a warning to all women not to follow your wicked example.

这样，我必使淫行从境内止息，好叫一切妇人都受警戒，不效法你们的淫行。

我必使这地不再有淫行，所有的妇女都受警戒，不再效法你们的淫行。

我必使这地不再有淫行，所有的妇女都受警戒，不再效法你们的淫行。

这样，我便制止了这地方的淫乱，所有的妇女都引以为戒，不敢效法她们。

这样，我必使淫荡从这地止息，好叫所有的妇人都受到警戒，不敢照着你们的淫荡而行。

這樣，我必使淫行從境內止息，好叫一切婦人都受警戒，不效法你們的淫行。

我必使這地不再有淫行，所有的婦女都受警戒，不再效法你們的淫行。

我必使這地不再有淫行，所有的婦女都受警戒，不再效法你們的淫行。

這樣，我便制止了這地方的淫亂，所有的婦女都引以為戒，不敢效法她們。

這樣，我必使淫蕩從這地止息，好叫所有的婦人都受到警戒，不敢照著你們的淫蕩而行。

這樣、我就使淫蕩從這境內止息，好使一切婦人都受警告不敢效法你們的淫蕩而行。

如是、必止淫行於斯土、以訓眾女、不效爾之行淫、

使斯土之人不染淫風、俾眾女不效爾尤、

如是我於斯地除諸邪淫、使眾婦受警戒、不效爾曹行淫、

“ So I will put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not imitate you.

“ So I will put an end to impurity in the land. Then all its women will be warned. They will not want to be like the sisters.

Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.

So I will put an end to depravity in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your depraved behavior.

So I will eliminate outrageous conduct from the land, so that all women will take warning and not commit outrageous sin as you have done.

Thus I will cause lewdness to cease from the land, that all women may be taught not to practice your lewdness.

Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

So I will put an end to indecency in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your indecent behavior.

Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

I will put an end to the obscene conduct in the land; all the women will learn a lesson from this and not engage in obscene conduct.

“‘ Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to be lewd like you.

They will burn your homes and punish you in front of many women. I will stop your prostitution and end your payments to your many lovers.

In this way, I will put a stop to the lewdness and prostitution you brought from Egypt. You will never again cast longing eyes on those things or fondly remember your time in Egypt.

Later, God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and turned them into heaps of ashes. He made them an example of what will happen to ungodly people.

You will become an object of mockery and taunting and horror. You will be a warning to all the nations around you. They will see what happens when the Lord punishes a nation in anger and rebukes it, says the Lord.

In the night I search for you; in the morning I earnestly seek you. For only when you come to judge the earth will people learn what is right.

“ I will sweep away people and animals alike. I will sweep away the birds of the sky and the fish in the sea. I will reduce the wicked to heaps of rubble, and I will wipe humanity from the face of the earth,” says the Lord.

These things happened as a warning to us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did,or worship idols as some of them did. As the Scriptures say,“ The people celebrated with feasting and drinking, and they indulged in pagan revelry.”And we must not engage in sexual immorality as some of them did, causing 23,000 of them to die in one day.Nor should we put Christ to the test, as some of them did and then died from snakebites.And don’t grumble as some of them did, and then were destroyed by the angel of death.These things happened to them as examples for us. They were written down to warn us who live at the end of the age.

“ Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. Your filth will be washed away, and you will no longer worship idols.

Wherever you live there will be desolation, and I will destroy your pagan shrines. Your altars will be demolished, your idols will be smashed, your places of worship will be torn down, and all the religious objects you have made will be destroyed.

I will scatter you among the nations and purge you of your wickedness.

I will tear down your walls and demolish your defenses.I will put an end to all witchcraft, and there will be no more fortune tellers.I will destroy all your idols and sacred pillars, so you will never again worship the work of your own hands.I will abolish your idol shrines with their Asherah poles and destroy your pagan cities.

Then all Israel will hear about it and be afraid, and no one will act so wickedly again.