For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even to this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, (p) I will not be enquired of by you.
(p) He shows that the ingratitude of the people deserves that God should cut them off, and that they should not have the comfort of his word.