“As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be enquired of by you, and that which comes into your mind will not be at all, in that you say, ‘we will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.' ”
They would have neither the one thing nor the other. They had lost their right to learn from Yahweh, but they would also not be allowed to continue in their idolatrous ways. It is always man's desire to fit in with his environment and be like others and ‘accepted'. But God's people are not to be like that, indeed will not finally be allowed to be like that. Note the contemptuous ‘serve wood and stone'. This is in contrast with worshipping the living, invisible God.