The high places remain

27Therefore speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In this also your fathers blasphemed me, by acting treacherously against me.’

28So I brought them into the land that I had lifted up my hand to give to them, and they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, and there they sacrificed their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering, and there they set their pleasing aromas, and there they poured out their drink offerings.

29Then I said to them, ‘What is this high place where you are going?’ So its name is called Bamah to this day.

30Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Are you defiling yourselves in the way of your fathers, and whoring after their detestable things?

31And when you present your gifts, when you make your sons pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.

32What is coming up in your mind will certainly not happen—that you say, ‘We will be like the nations, like the clans of the lands, serving wood and stone.’