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And you, do not pray for this people; do not lift up cry or prayer for them. Do not intercede with Me, for I do not hear you.

Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

The sons gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke Me.

Do they provoke Me, says Jehovah? Is it not themselves, to the shame of their own faces?

So the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and on animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground. And it will burn and will not be put out.