“But God turned away and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.