16. Because they cast off my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, and violated my sabbaths: for their heart went after idols.
17. Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them not: neither did I consume them in the desert.
18. And I said to their children in the wilderness: Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, and observe not their judgments, nor be ye defiled with their idols:
19. I am the Lord your God: walk ye in my statutes, and observe my judgments, and do them.
20. And sanctify my sabbaths, that they may be a sign between me and you: and that you may know that I am the Lord your God.
21. But their children provoked me, they walked not in my commandments, nor observed my judgments to do them: which if a man do, he shell live in them: and they violated my sabbaths: and I threatened to pour out my indignation upon them, and to accomplish my wrath in them in the desert.
22. But I turned away my hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it might not be violated before the nations, out of which I brought them forth in their sight.
23. Again I lifted up my hand upon them in the wilderness, to disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries:
24. Because they had not done my judgments, and had cast off my statutes, and had violated my sabbaths, and their eyes had been after the idols of their fathers.
25. Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments, in which they shall not live.
26. And I polluted them in their own gifts, when they offered all that opened the womb, for their offences: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
27. Wherefore speak to the house of Israel, O son of man, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover in this also your fathers blasphemed me, when they had despised and contemned me;