Jeremiah 32:28–35

²⁸Therefore thus says the Lord, “Behold, I am about to ^agive this city into the hand of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will take it.

²⁹“The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will enter and ^aset this city on fire and burn it, with the ^bhouses where people have offered incense to Baal on their roofs and poured out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.

³⁰“Indeed the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have been doing only ^aevil in My sight from their youth; for the sons of Israel have been only ^bprovoking Me to anger by the work of their hands,” declares the Lord.

³¹“Indeed this city has been to Me a ^aprovocation of My anger and My wrath from the day that they built it, even to this day, so that it should be ^bremoved from before My face,

³²because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah which they have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their ^akings, their leaders, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

³³“They have turned their back to Me and not their face; though I taught them, ^1ateaching again and again, they would not listen ²and receive instruction.

³⁴“But they ^aput their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.

³⁵“They built the ^ahigh places of Baal that are in the valley of Ben-hinnom to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to ^bMolech, which I had not commanded them nor had it ¹entered My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.