Ezekiel 20:31-33

New Catholic Bible

³¹ When you offer your gifts and burn your children as sacrifices, you defile yourselves with all your idols even to this day. Shall I allow myself to be consulted by you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord God, I swear that I will not allow myself to be consulted by you.

³² When you say to yourselves, “We shall become like the nations and peoples of foreign lands, worshiping wood and stone,” you are making plans for something that will never occur. ³³ As I live, says the Lord God, with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and with my wrath poured out, I shall reign over you.