³⁰ “Therefore, give the people of Israel this message from the Sovereign Lord: Do you plan to pollute yourselves just as your ancestors did? Do you intend to keep prostituting yourselves by worshiping vile images?

¹² And you are even worse than your ancestors! You stubbornly follow your own evil desires and refuse to listen to me.

²⁶ But my people have not listened to me or even tried to hear. They have been stubborn and sinful—even worse than their ancestors.

¹⁹ But when the judge died, the people returned to their corrupt ways, behaving worse than those who had lived before them. They went after other gods, serving and worshiping them. And they refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

⁵¹ “You stubborn people! You are heathen^[a] at heart and deaf to the truth. Must you forever resist the Holy Spirit? That’s what your ancestors did, and so do you!

³² Go ahead and finish what your ancestors started.

¹⁴ Instead, they have stubbornly followed their own desires and worshiped the images of Baal, as their ancestors taught them.

¹⁴ But here you are, a brood of sinners, doing exactly the same thing! You are making the Lord even angrier with Israel.