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"The childrengatherwood, and the fatherskindle the fire, and the womenkneaddough to makecakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drinkofferings to othergods in order to spite Me.
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Thereforethussays the LordGOD, "Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on thisplace, on man and on beast and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched."
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"For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning*burntofferings and sacrifices.
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"But this is what I commanded them, saying, 'Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the waywhich I command you, that it may be well with you.'
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"Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evilheart, and wentbackward and not forward.
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"Since the day that your fatherscame out of the land of Egyptuntilthisday, I have sent you all My servants the prophets, dailyrisingearly and sending them.