22And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean in the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had taken them out.
23Further, I gave my oath to them in the waste land that I would send them wandering among the nations, driving them out among the countries;
24Because they had not done my orders, but had been turned away from my rules, and had not given respect to my Sabbaths, and their eyes were turned to the images of their fathers.
25And further, I gave them rules which were not good and orders in which there was no life for them;
26I made them unclean in the offerings they gave, causing them to make every first child go through the fire, so that I might put an end to them.
27For this cause, son of man, say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: In this your fathers have further put shame on my name by doing wrong against me.
28For when I had taken them into the land which I made an oath to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every branching tree and made their offerings there, moving me to wrath by their offerings; and there the sweet smell of their offerings went up and their drink offerings were drained out.
