15. I will cast you out of My sight as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
16. As for you, do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry nor prayer for them, nor make intercession to Me, for I will not hear you.
17. Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18. The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger.
19. Do they provoke Me to anger? says the Lord. Do they not provoke themselves to the shame of their own faces?