Intercession Is Restricted amid Household Worship

Intercession is restricted while households bake for the queen of heaven

Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee. Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

The exceptional prohibition does not forbid prayer for wrongdoers today. Whole-household participation describes a culture of other worship, not a warrant to break families by force or to blame children who gather wood.

Wrath is pictured as pouring on place, beast, tree, and ground

Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces? Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

The land-wide burn is prophetic judgment speech, not authorization of environmental destruction. Confusion of faces is the fruit of the worship, not a cue to humiliate women who knead dough.