^9 (A)Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, ^(B)swear falsely, ^(C)make offerings to Baal, ^(D)and go after other gods that you have not known, ¹⁰ and then come and stand before me in this house, ^(E)which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations?

²³ But this command I gave them: ^(A)‘Obey my voice, and ^(B)I will be your God, and you shall be my people. ^(C)And walk in all the way that I command you, ^(D)that it may be well with you.’ ^24 (E)But they did not obey or incline their ear, ^(F)but walked in their own counsels and ^(G)the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and ^(H)went backward and not forward. ²⁵ From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, ^(I)I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day. ^26 (J)Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, ^(K)but stiffened their neck. ^(L)They did worse than their fathers.

^27 (M)“So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. ^(N)You shall call to them, but they will not answer you. ²⁸ And you shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the Lord their God, and did not accept discipline; ^(O)truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.