24. because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.
25. Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live.
26. I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused all that opens the womb to pass through the fire, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the Lord.”’
27. “Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Moreover, in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.