“My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.”
The accusation that Israel consults a piece of wood and a stick gives him an answer, indicating reliance on divination practices and idolatrous consultation rather than on seeking the knowledge of God, articulates the spiritual blindness that characterizes covenant unfaithfulness. These references to wooden idols and divining sticks represent the substitution of genuine seeking of God for reliance on objects and practices that claim to access divine will but actually constitute departure from covenant relationship. The ridicule of these practices suggests their futility and the absurdity of seeking guidance from inanimate objects rather than from the living God.
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