Ezekiel 20:30-32
Christian Standard Bible
30 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Lord God says: Are you defiling yourselves the way your ancestors did,(A) and prostituting yourselves with their abhorrent things? 31 When you offer your gifts, sacrificing your children in the fire,[a](B) you still continue to defile yourselves with all your idols today. So should I let you inquire of me, house of Israel? As I live—this is the declaration of the Lord God—I will not let you inquire of me!
Israel’s Restoration
32 “‘When you say, “Let’s be like the nations, like the clans of other countries, serving wood and stone,”(C) what you have in mind will never happen.(D)
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- 20:31 Lit gifts, making your children pass through the fire
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