Ezekiel 23:41
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You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil,
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Hangings of white and blue linen were fastened with cords of fine white and purple material to silver rings on the marble pillars. Gold and silver couches were arranged on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and other costly stones.
You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.
They alone shall enter My sanctuary and draw near to My table to minister before Me. They will keep My charge.
Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.
But you who forsake the LORD, who forget My holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,
On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.
By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.
They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.