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All day long I ·stood ready to accept [L stretched out my hands to a]
    people who ·turned [rebelled] against me,
but the way they continue to ·live [walk] is not good;
    ·they do anything they want to do [following their own thoughts/schemes].
·Right in front of me [To my face]
    they continue to do things that make me angry.
    They offer sacrifices to their gods in their gardens [1:29],
    and they burn incense on altars of brick.
They sit among the graves
    and spend their nights ·waiting to get messages from the dead [or keeping vigil; or in secret places].
They eat the ·meat [flesh] of pigs [C unclean animal; Lev. 11:7; Deut. 14:8],
    and their pots are full of soup made from ·meat that is wrong to eat [defiled/polluted things].

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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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