Ezekiel 20:30-32

Christian Standard Bible

³⁰ “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Lord God says: Are you defiling yourselves the way your ancestors did,^(A) and prostituting yourselves with their abhorrent things? ³¹ When you offer your gifts, sacrificing your children in the fire,^[a](B) you still continue to defile yourselves with all your idols today. So should I let you inquire of me, house of Israel? As I live—this is the declaration of the Lord God—I will not let you inquire of me!

Israel’s Restoration

³² “‘When you say, “Let’s be like the nations, like the clans of other countries, serving wood and stone,”^(C) what you have in mind will never happen.^(D)