Gird up now your loins like a man; for I will demand of you, and you answer me.

Gird up your loins now like a man: I will demand of you, and declare you unto me.

Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and inform me.

“For adultery is a heinous and lustful crime;
Moreover, it would be a sin punishable by the judges.

This also would have been [a heinous] sin calling for judgment,
For I would have denied God above.