25 So I gave(A) them other statutes that were not good and laws through which they could not live;(B) 26 I defiled them through their gifts—the sacrifice(C) of every firstborn—that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the Lord.(D)

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25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;

26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the Lord.

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25 “Therefore (A)I also gave them up to statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they could not live; 26 and I pronounced them unclean because of their ritual gifts, in that they caused all [a]their firstborn to pass (B)through the fire, that I might make them desolate and that they (C)might know that I am the Lord.” ’

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 20:26 Lit. that open the womb