^11 (A)But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely ^(B)curse^[a] You to Your face!”

³⁰ because the children of Israel and the children of Judah ^(A)have done only evil before Me from their youth. For the children of Israel have provoked Me only to anger with the work of their hands,’ says the Lord. ³¹ ‘For this city has been to Me a provocation of My anger and My fury from the day that they built it, even to this day; ^(B)so I will remove it from before My face ³² because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger—^(C)they, their kings, their princes, their priests, ^(D)their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ³³ And they have turned to Me the ^(E)back, and not the face; though I taught them, ^(F)rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction. ³⁴ But they ^(G)set their abominations in ^[a]the house which is called by My name, to defile it. ³⁵ And they built the high places of Baal which are in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to ^(H)cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to ^(I)Molech, ^(J)which I did not command them, nor did it come into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.’

^5 (A)But stretch out Your hand now, and touch his ^(B)bone and his flesh, and he will surely ^[a]curse You to Your face!”

¹⁴ Nevertheless they would not hear, but ^(A)stiffened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who ^(B)did not believe in the Lord their God. ¹⁵ And they ^(C)rejected His statutes ^(D)and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He had testified against them; they followed ^(E)idols, ^(F)became idolaters, and went after the nations who were all around them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them that they should ^(G)not do like them. ¹⁶ So they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, ^(H)made for themselves a molded image and two calves, ^(I)made a wooden image and worshiped all the ^(J)host of heaven, ^(K)and served Baal. ^17 (L)And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, ^(M)practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and ^(N)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.