¹⁶ “As for you, ^(A)do not pray for this people and do not lift up a cry of lamentation or prayer for them and do not intercede with Me, for I am not hearing you. ¹⁷ Are you not seeing what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? ¹⁸ The ^[a]children gather wood, and the fathers make the fire burn, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they ^(B)pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to ^(C)provoke Me. ^19 (D)Do they provoke Me?” declares Yahweh. “Is it not themselves they provoke to the ^(E)shame of their own face?” ²⁰ Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, My ^(F)anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast and on the ^(G)trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched.”