But My people would not heed My voice, and Israel would have none of Me.

So I gave them over to their own stubborn heart, to walk in their own counsels.

I also will choose the things that delude them, and I will bring their fears upon them, because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they have not obeyed. But they did evil before My eyes and have chosen that in which I have not delighted.

For anyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from Me and sets up his idols in his heart and puts before his face the stumbling block of his iniquity, and comes to a prophet to inquire of him concerning Me, I Jehovah will answer him by Myself.

And if the prophet is induced to speak anything, I Jehovah have induced that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from the midst of My people Israel.

Therefore I also gave them up to statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they could not live;

As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord Jehovah: Go, serve every one of you his idols, even hereafter, if you will not obey me. But profane My holy name no more with your gifts and your idols.

Ephraim is joined to idols. Let him alone.

Therefore God also gives them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves,

For this reason God gives them up to vile passions. For even their women change the natural use for what is contrary to nature.

And even as they do not like to have God in their full true knowledge, God gives them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

and with all unrighteous deception among those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

And take heed, when you lift up your eyes to the heavens, and you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of the heavens, that you not be driven to bow down to them and serve them, which Jehovah your God has allotted to all the peoples under the heavens.

who has gone and served other gods and bowed down to them, either the sun or moon or any of the host of the heavens, which I have not commanded,

And they left all the commandments of Jehovah their God, made for themselves molten images, two calves, made a grove and bowed down to all the host of the heavens, and served Baal.

For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; he raised up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and he bowed down to all the host of the heavens and served them.

if I have observed the sun when it shines, or the moon moving in splendor,

this also would be a perversity deserving of judgment, for I would have denied the Mighty God above.

And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be as defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of the heavens, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.

So He brought me into the inner court of the house of Jehovah; and behold, at the door of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of Jehovah and their faces toward the east, and they were bowing down to the sun toward the east.

Have you drawn near with sacrifices and food offerings to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Indeed, you have borne the tabernacle of your king, and Chiun your images, the star of your gods, which you made for yourselves!

You have not brought Me the lamb of your burnt offerings; nor have you honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with an offering, nor wearied you with incense.

For forty years I was grieved with that generation, and said, It is a people who go astray in their hearts, and they have not known My ways.

where your fathers tested Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years.

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

Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?