12. Just go to my sanctuary in Shiloh, where I let my name dwell at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil of my people Israel.
13. And now, because you have done all these things, declares the Lord, because you haven’t listened when I spoke to you again and again or responded when I called you,
14. I will do to this temple that bears my name and on which you rely, the place that I gave to you and your ancestors, just as I did to Shiloh.
15. I will cast you out of my sight, just as I cast out the rest of your family, all the people of Ephraim.
16. As for you, don’t pray for these people, don’t cry out or plead for them, and don’t intercede with me, for I won’t listen to you.
17. Can’t you see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18. The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead dough to make sacrificial cakes for the queen of heaven. And to offend me all the more, they pour out drink offerings to foreign gods.
19. But am I the one they are really offending? declares the Lord. Aren’t they in fact humiliating themselves?
20. Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: I’m going to pour out my fierce anger on this place, on humans and beasts, on the trees of the field and the crops of the fertile land. It will burn and not go out.
21. This is what the Lord of heavenly forces, the God of Israel, says: Add your entirely burned offerings to your sacrifices and eat them yourselves!
22. On the day I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I didn’t say a thing—I gave no instructions—about entirely burned offerings or sacrifices.
23. Rather, this is what I required of them: Obey me so that I may become your God and you may become my people. Follow the path I mark out for you so that it may go well with you.
24. But they didn’t listen or pay attention. They followed their willful and evil hearts and went backward rather than forward.
25. From the moment your ancestors left the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent you all my servants the prophets—day after day.
26. But they didn’t listen to me or pay attention; they were stubborn and did more harm than their ancestors.