13. Now, because you have done all these things” — this is the Lord’s declaration — “and because I have spoken to you time and time again but you wouldn’t listen, and I have called to you, but you wouldn’t answer,
14. what I did to Shiloh I will do to the house that is called by My name — the house in which you trust — the place that I gave you and your ancestors.
15. I will drive you from My presence, just as I drove out all of your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.
16. “As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not offer a cry or a prayer on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.
17. Don’t you see how they behave in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18. The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and they pour out drink offerings to other gods so that they provoke Me to anger.
19. But are they really provoking Me? ” This is the Lord’s declaration. “Isn’t it they themselves being provoked to disgrace? ”