^6 (A)But if you or your sons at all ^[a]turn from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, ^7 (B)then I will ^[b]cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house which I have consecrated ^(C)for My name I will cast out of My sight. ^(D)Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. ⁸ And as for ^(E)this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and say, ^(F)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’ ⁹ Then they will answer, ‘Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore the Lord has brought all this ^(G)calamity on them.’ ”

^17 (A)And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, ^(B)practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and ^(C)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.