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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 enquire of me, house of Israel? As I live – this is the declaration of the Lord God – I will not let you enquire 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)

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Footnotes

  1. 20:31 Lit gifts, making your children pass through the fire