21 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: a“Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat.
22 aFor I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.
23 But this is what I commanded them, saying, a‘Obey My voice, and bI will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’
24 aYet they did not obey or incline their ear, but bfollowed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and cwent backward and not forward.
25 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have even asent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.
26 aYet they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but bstiffened their neck. cThey did worse than their fathers.
27 “Therefore ayou shall speak all these words to them, but they will not obey you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you.
Judgment on Obscene Religion
28 “So you shall say to them, ‘This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the Lord their God anor receive correction. bTruth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.
29 aCut off your hair and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the desolate heights; for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’
30 For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight,” says the Lord. a“They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to1 pollute it.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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