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They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods they had not known, new gods that had just arrived, which your fathers did not fear.
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You ignored the Rock who gave you birth; you forgot the God who brought you forth.
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When the Lord saw [this], He despised [them], provoked [to anger] by His sons and daughters.
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He said: "I will hide My face from them; I will see what will become of them, for they are a perverse generation- unfaithful children.
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They have provoked My jealousy with [their] so-called gods; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will provoke their jealousy with an inferior people; I will enrage them with a foolish nation.