But My people hearkened not to My voice; and Israel gave no heed to Me.

So I let them go after the ways of their own hearts; they will go on in their own ways.

I also will choose their mockeries, and will recompense their sins upon them; because I called them, and they did not hearken to Me; I spoke, and they heard not; and they did evil before Me, and chose the things in which I did not delight.

For any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who shall separate himself from Me, and conceive his imaginations in his heart, and set before his face the punishment of his iniquity, and come to the prophet to inquire of him concerning Me; I the Lord will answer him, [according to the things] in which he is entangled.

And if a prophet should cause to err and should speak, I the Lord have caused that prophet to err, and I will stretch out My hand upon him, and will utterly destroy him from the midst of My people Israel.

So I gave them commandments [that were] not good, and ordinances in which they should not live.

And [as for] you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord, [even] the Lord: Put away each one his [evil] practices, and hereafter if you hearken to Me, then shall you no more profane My holy name by your gifts and by devices.

Ephraim, joined with idols, has laid stumbling blocks in his own way.

Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of the own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves,

For this reason God gave them up to passions of dishonor; for even their females exchanged the natural use for that which is contrary to nature,

And just as they did not approve to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do the things which are not fitting;

and in all deception of unrighteousness among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

so that they all might be damned who did not believe the truth, but delighted in unrighteousness.

and lest having looked up to the sky, and having seen the sun and the moon and the stars, and all the heavenly bodies, you should go astray and worship them, and serve them, which the Lord your God has distributed to all the nations under heaven.

and they should go and serve other gods, and worship them, the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which He commanded you not to do,

They forsook the commandments of the Lord their God, and made themselves graven images, [even] two heifers, and they made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

And he built again the high places, which Hezekiah his father [had] demolished, and set up an altar to Baal, and made groves as Ahab king of Israel [had made]; and worshipped the whole host of heaven, and served them.

(do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, and the moon waning? For they have not [power] to [continue]:)

let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity: for I [should] have lied against the Lord Most High.

And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be as a ruinous place, because of their uncleanness in all the houses, in which they burnt incense upon their roofs to all the host of heaven, and poured [out] drink offerings to strange gods.

And He brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty men, with their back parts toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces [turned] the opposite way; and these were worshipping the sun.

Have you offered to Me victims and sacrifices, O house of Israel, forty years in the wilderness?

Yea, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Rephan, the images of them which you made for yourselves.

You have not brought Me the sheep of your whole burnt offering; neither have you glorified Me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with sacrifices, neither have I wearied you with frankincense.

Forty years was I grieved with this generation, and said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known My ways.

Where your fathers tested Me, they tried Me, and saw My works forty years.

while it is said: "Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."

And with whom was He indignant forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?