18. The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
19. Is it I whom they provoke to anger? saith Jehovah; is it not themselves, to the shame of their own face?
20. Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place; upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
21. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.
22. For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them concerning burnt-offerings and sacrifices, in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt;
23. but I commanded them this thing, saying, Hearken unto my voice, and I will be your God and ye shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.
24. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.
25. Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt, unto this day, have I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them;
26. but they have not hearkened unto me, nor inclined their ear; and they have hardened their neck: they have done worse than their fathers.
27. And thou shalt speak all these words unto them, but they will not hearken unto thee; and thou shalt call unto them, but they will not answer thee.
28. And thou shalt say unto them, This is the nation which hath not hearkened unto the voice of Jehovah their God nor received correction; fidelity is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
29. Cut off thy hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the heights; for Jehovah hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.