Ezekiel 20:25

²⁵Since they were determined to live bad lives, I myself gave them statutes that could not produce goodness and laws that did not produce life.

In Ezekiel 20, the elders of Israel come to inquire of the Lord, but God refuses to be consulted by them. Instead, He commands Ezekiel to recount Israel's long history of rebellion, from Egypt through the wilderness and into the land. The chapter is a sweeping indictment: God gave H