25 ^vMoreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and rules by which they could not have life, 26 and I defiled them through ^wtheir very gifts ^win their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. I did it ^xthat they might know that I am the Lord.

14 Go and cry out ^zto the gods whom you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress.”