^8 (A)Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, ^(B)making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become ^(C)a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?

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. ^19 (F)Is it I whom they provoke? declares the Lord. Is it not themselves, ^(G)to their own shame?