They forsook the temple of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and began to serve the sacred poles and the idols; and because of this crime of theirs, wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem.
Bayishiya indlu kaJehova uNkulunkulu wawoyise, bakhonza o-Ashera nezithombe; uJuda neJerusalema kwehlelwa yintukuthelo ngaleli cala labo.