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All the time, I have been ready to help my people,
    even though they turned against me.
But they continue to live in a way that is not good.
    They do whatever they want to do.
They continue to make me angry,
    as they insult me without shame.
They offer sacrifices to their idols in their gardens.
They burn incense to them
    on altars that are made from bricks.
They sit among the graves
    and they hide in caves.[a]
They eat meat from pigs.
    They use unclean meat to make their soup.

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Footnotes

  1. 65:4 They probably did this to worship the spirits of dead people.

All day long I have held out my hands
    to an obstinate people,(A)
who walk in ways not good,
    pursuing their own imaginations(B)
a people who continually provoke me
    to my very face,(C)
offering sacrifices in gardens(D)
    and burning incense(E) on altars of brick;
who sit among the graves(F)
    and spend their nights keeping secret vigil;
who eat the flesh of pigs,(G)
    and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;

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