^15 (A)They rejected His statutes and ^(B)His covenant which He made with their fathers and His warnings with which He warned them. And ^(C)they followed vanity and ^(D)became vain, and went after the nations which surrounded them, concerning which the ^(E)Lord had commanded them not to do like them. ¹⁶ They forsook all the commandments of the Lord their God and made for themselves molten images, even ^(F)two calves, and ^(G)made an ^[a]Asherah and ^(H)worshiped all the host of heaven and ^(I)served Baal. ¹⁷ Then ^(J)they made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, and ^(K)practiced divination and enchantments, and ^(L)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him.

⁶ and ^(A)do not go after other gods to ^[a]serve them and to ^[b]worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands, and I will do you no harm.’ ⁷ Yet you have not listened to Me,” declares the Lord, “in order that you might ^(B)provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.

^3 (A)because of their wickedness which they committed so as to ^(B)provoke Me to anger by continuing to ^(C)burn ^[a]sacrifices and to ^(D)serve other gods whom they had not known, neither they, you, nor your fathers.

^21 (A)You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and ^(B)the table of demons. ²² Or do we ^(C)provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not ^(D)stronger than He, are we?