Jeremiah 7:18-20

International Standard Version

¹⁸ The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven,^[a] and they pour out liquid offerings to other gods in order to provoke me. ¹⁹ Are they provoking me?” asks the Lord. “Is it not themselves, and to their own shame?” ²⁰ Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: “I’m about to pour out my anger and my wrath on this place, on people and animals, on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground. It will burn, and it won’t be put out.”