³¹And when you lift up your gifts, sacrificing your children^o through the fire, you are defiling yourself through all of your idols until today,^p and will I let myself^q be consulted by you, house of Israel?” ’ As I live,”^r declares^s the Lord Yahweh, “I will not let myself^t be consulted by you!

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Footnotes

oLiterally “at to lift up your gifts at causing to pass over your children”
pLiterally “the day”
qHebrew “me”
rLiterally “Live I”
sLiterally “declaration of”
tHebrew “me”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

When you present your gifts and offer up your children in fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, declares the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

When you offer your gifts—the sacrifice of your children 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.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

When you offer your gifts, sacrificing your children in the fire, you still continue to defile yourselves with all your idols today. So should I let you inquire of me, house of Israel? As I live—this is the declaration of the Lord God—I will not let you inquire of me!

NLTNew Living Translation

For when you offer gifts to them and give your little children to be burned as sacrifices, you continue to pollute yourselves with idols to this day. Should I allow you to ask for a message from me, O people of Israel? As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, I will tell you nothing.

KJV 1900King James Version

For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.

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