to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,
Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that y
“Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves—to follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh o
They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make
For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious pres
But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
For the children of Israel and of Judah have done nothing but evil in My sight from their youth; indeed, they have done
But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.
“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they a
They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works o
Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on e
When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered
But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.
For this reason the Israelites will bring to the LORD the sacrifices they have been offering in the open fields. They ar
“You are also to make an altar of acacia wood for the burning of incense.
You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and g