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(A)I have always been ready to welcome my people, who stubbornly do what is wrong and go their own way. They shamelessly keep on making me angry. They offer pagan sacrifices at sacred gardens[a] and burn incense on pagan altars. At night they go to caves and tombs to consult the spirits of the dead. They eat pork and drink broth made from meat offered in pagan sacrifices.

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  1. Isaiah 65:3 See 1.29.

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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