The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Do they provoke me to anger? saith Jehovah; (do they) not (provoke) themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?
Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of wrestling (of judgment): for they say, Jehovah hath forsaken the land, and Jehovah seeth not.
Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians, thy neighbors, great of flesh; and hast multiplied thy whoredom, to provoke me to anger.
And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.