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?