18 The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, (A)and the women knead dough, to (B)make cakes for (C)the queen of heaven. And (D)they pour out drink offerings to other gods, (E)to provoke me to anger.

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13 The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah—(A)all the houses on whose (B)roofs offerings have been offered (C)to all the host of heaven, and (D)drink offerings have been poured out to other gods—shall be defiled (E)like the place of Topheth.’”

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17 (A)But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to (B)the queen of heaven (C)and pour out drink offerings to her, (D)as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster. 18 But since we left off making offerings to (E)the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything (F)and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.” 19 And the women said,[a] “When we made offerings to the queen of heaven (G)and poured out drink offerings to her, was it (H)without our husbands' approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 44:19 Compare Syriac; Hebrew lacks And the women said

22 (A)Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? (B)Are we stronger than he?

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but you have done evil above all who were before you and have gone and (A)made for yourself other gods and (B)metal images, provoking me to anger, and (C)have cast me behind your back,

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29 The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city (A)shall come and set this city on fire and burn it, (B)with the houses on whose roofs offerings have been made to Baal (C)and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods, (D)to provoke me to anger.

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(A)Yet you have not listened to me, declares the Lord, (B)that you might provoke me to anger (C)with the work of your hands to your own harm.

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17 The Lord of hosts, (A)who planted you, has decreed disaster against you, because of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done, (B)provoking me to anger by making offerings to Baal.”

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“Since I (A)exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and (B)you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins,

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37 Then he will say, (A)‘Where are their gods,
    (B)the rock in which they took refuge,
38 who ate the fat of their sacrifices
    and drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise up and help you;
    let them be your protection!

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21 (A)They have made me jealous with what is no god;
    they have provoked me to anger (B)with their idols.
So (C)I will make them jealous with those who are no people;
    I will provoke them to anger with (D)a foolish nation.

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16 (A)They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;
    with abominations they provoked him to anger.

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19 And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see (A)the sun and the moon and the stars, (B)all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

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28 For when I had brought them into the land that (A)I swore to give them, then wherever they saw (B)any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and there they presented (C)the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing aromas, and there they poured out their drink offerings.

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25 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: (A)You and your wives have declared with your mouths, and have fulfilled it with your hands, saying, ‘We will surely perform our vows that we have made, (B)to make offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.’ Then confirm your vows and perform your vows!

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11 But (A)you who forsake the Lord,
    who forget (B)my holy mountain,
who (C)set a table for Fortune
    and (D)fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny,

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a people who provoke me
    to my face continually,
(A)sacrificing in gardens
    and making offerings on bricks;

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Among the smooth stones of (A)the valley is your portion;
    they, they, are your lot;
to them you have poured out a drink offering,
    you have brought a grain offering.
    Shall I relent for these things?

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For Jerusalem has stumbled,
    and Judah has fallen,
because their (A)speech and their deeds are against the Lord,
    (B)defying his glorious presence.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 3:8 Hebrew the eyes of his glory

The sorrows of those who run after[a] another god shall multiply;
    their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out
    or (A)take their names on my lips.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 16:4 Or who acquire

26 (A)if I have looked at the sun[a] when it shone,
    or (B)the moon moving in splendor,
27 and my heart has been secretly enticed,
    and my mouth has kissed my hand,
28 this also would be (C)an iniquity to be punished by the judges,
    for I would have been false to God above.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 31:26 Hebrew the light

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