Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageThey have built the high places of Baal to burn their children as whole burnt offerings to Baal — something I never commanded, never decreed, and that never even crossed My heart.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.Gand have built the high places of Ba'al to burn their sons as fire-offerings to Ba'al — something I never commanded, never spoke of, and that never once entered My mind.
KJV
King James VersionThey have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
BSB
Berean Standard BibleThey have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.
Footnotes
The phrase לֹא עָלְתָה עַל-לִבִּי (*lo 'altah 'al-libbi*) — "it never rose upon my heart" — is a Hebraic idiom for the utterly unthinkable, something so far beyond consideration that it never even surfaced in the mind. The לֵב (*lev*, heart) in Hebrew thought is the seat of both will and cognition, not emotion alone; this is Elohim's most absolute repudiation of child sacrifice as antithetical to His very character. The word עֹלוֹת (*'olot*) designates the whole burnt offering — the highest act of covenantal worship — making its application to murdered children a grotesque inversion of the sacred. FOG uses "fire-offerings" to preserve the sacrificial register without importing the Greek *holokauston*; FOG Message renders "whole burnt offerings" to make the theological irony viscerally explicit.