[2] All day long I have held out my hands to an obstinate people, who walk in ways not good, pursuing their own imaginations— [3] a people who continually provoke me to my very face, offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on altars of brick; [4] who sit among the graves and spend their nights keeping secret vigil; who eat the flesh of pigs, and whose pots hold broth of impure meat; [5] who say, ‘Keep away; don’t come near me, for I am too sacred for you!’ Such people are smoke in my nostrils, a fire that keeps burning all day. [6] “See, it stands written before me: I will not keep silent but will pay back in full; I will pay it back into their laps— [7] both your sins and the sins of your ancestors,” says the LORD. “Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains and defied me on the hills, I will measure into their laps the full payment for their former deeds.”
