⁶ “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Return! Turn from your idols, and turn your faces away from your abominations. ⁷ For when anyone from the house of Israel, or the resident foreigner^[a] who lives in Israel, separates himself from me and erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet to seek something from me, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally. ⁸ I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword^[b] and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.