¹⁷ Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following the one in the center, eating the flesh of pigs, vermin, and rodents, shall come to an end together, says the Lord,^(A)

¹¹ But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.”^(A)

³⁰ For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth; the people of Israel have done nothing but provoke me to anger by the work of their hands, says the Lord.^{(A) 31} This city has aroused my anger and wrath, from the day it was built until this day, so that I will remove it from my sight^{(B) 32} because of all the evil of the people of Israel and the people of Judah that they did to provoke me to anger—they, their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets, the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.^{(C) 33} They have turned their backs to me, not their faces; though I have taught them persistently, they would not listen and accept correction.^{(D) 34} They set up their abominations in the house that bears my name and defiled it.^{(E) 35} They built the high places of Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter my mind that they should do this abomination, causing Judah to sin.^(F)

⁵ But stretch out your hand now and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.”^(A)

¹⁴ They would not listen but were stubborn, as their ancestors had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.^{(A) 15} They despised his statutes and his covenant that he had made with their ancestors and the warnings that he had given them. They went after false idols and became false; they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.^{(B) 16} They rejected all the commandments of the Lord their God and made for themselves cast images of two calves; they made a sacred pole,^[a] worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.^{(C) 17} They made their sons and their daughters pass through fire, used divination and augury, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.^(D)