²⁰ “‘And you took your sons and daughters^(A) whom you bore to me^(B) and sacrificed them as food to the idols. Was your prostitution not enough?^(C)

²¹ You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.^(A)

³⁶ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you poured out your lust and exposed your naked body in your promiscuity with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because you gave them your children’s blood,^(A)

⁴⁵ You are a true daughter of your mother, who despised^(A) her husband^(B) and her children; and you are a true sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.^(C)

²⁶ I defiled them through their gifts—the sacrifice^(A) of every firstborn—that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the Lord.^(B)’

³¹ When you offer your gifts—the sacrifice of your children^(A) in the fire—you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. Am I to let you inquire of me, you Israelites? As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will not let you inquire of me.^(B)