18 The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, ^gand the women knead dough, to ^hmake cakes for ⁱthe queen of heaven. And ^jthey pour out drink offerings to other gods, ^kto provoke me to anger. 19 ^lIs it I whom they provoke? declares the Lord. Is it not themselves, ^mto their own shame?

28 For when I had brought them into the land that ^aI swore to give them, then wherever they saw ^bany high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and there they presented ^cthe provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing aromas, and there they poured out their drink offerings.