¹⁸ You are to say that this is what the Lord God says.

Woe to those women who sew magic bands for all their^[a] wrists and who make veils of every size for people’s heads in order to trap souls.^[b] Will you women trap the souls of my people, but preserve your own souls? ¹⁹ You women profane me among my people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread, killing people^[c] who should not die and keeping people alive who should not live. You do this by your lying to my people—those who listen to lies. ²⁰ Therefore, this is what the Lord God says.

Listen. I am against your magic bands, with which you women trap souls like birds. I will tear them from your arms, and I will set free the souls that you trap like birds.