18 The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, (A)and the women knead dough, to (B)make cakes for (C)the queen of heaven. And (D)they pour out drink offerings to other gods, (E)to provoke me to anger. 19 (F)Is it I whom they provoke? declares the Lord. Is it not themselves, (G)to their own shame? 20 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, (H)my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; (I)it will burn and not be quenched.”

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