20 No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice g they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. 21 h You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and i the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and j the table of demons. 22 k Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? l Are we stronger than he?
16 t They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;
with abominations they provoked him to anger.
17 u They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
to gods they had never known,
to v new gods that had come recently,
whom your fathers had never dreaded.
18 You were unmindful of w the Rock that bore [1] you,
and you x forgot the God who gave you birth.
19 y “The Lord saw it and spurned them,
because of the provocation of z his sons and his daughters.
20 And he said, a ‘I will hide my face from them;
I will see what their end will be,
For they are a perverse generation,
children in whom is no faithfulness.
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