But the more I called to him, the more he turned away from me. My people sacrificed to Baal; they burned incense to idols.

Everything that the people of Israel do from morning to night is useless and destructive. Treachery and acts of violence increase among them. They make treaties with Assyria and do business with Egypt."

They still keep on sinning by making metal images to worship---idols of silver, designed by human minds, made by human hands. And then they say, "Offer sacrifices to them!" How can anyone kiss those idols---idols in the shape of bulls!

The LORD says, "Let no one accuse the people or reprimand them---my complaint is against you priests.

So I let them go their stubborn ways and do whatever they wanted.

"Don't worry about them! They are blind leaders of the blind; and when one blind man leads another, both fall into a ditch."

Whoever is evil must go on doing evil, and whoever is filthy must go on being filthy; whoever is good must go on doing good, and whoever is holy must go on being holy."