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 (A)But they did not obey or incline their ear, ^(B)but walked in their own counsels and ^(C)the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and ^(D)went backward and not forward.

^26 (A)Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, ^(B)but stiffened their neck. ^(C)They did worse than their fathers.