They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, And burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, Because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, And your brides commit adultery.
"Therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery ..." Smith noted that, "This is one of the few passages in the Old Testament which deliberately places women upon the same level of responsibility as men."[35]  Under their pagan system, there was respect neither for womanhood nor the sacred ties of marriage.  Men who frequented high places and shrines and submitted to the enticements of their immoral pleasures should not have been surprised that their own wives and daughters also engaged in immorality.  This passage "assumes that God will judge men upon the same basis as women; there is no double sexual ethic."[36]