6
It was not for destruction that you were sold to the nations, but you were handed over to your enemies because you angered God.
7
For you provoked him who made you, by sacrificing to demons and not to God.
8
You forgot the everlasting God, who brought you up, and you grieved Jerusalem, who reared you.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.