⁶ And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness ^(A)more than the nations, and against my statutes more than ^(B)the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes.

¹⁰ They have turned back to ^(A)the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words. ^(B)They have gone after other gods to serve them. ^(C)The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant that I made with their fathers.

¹¹ But ^(A)they refused to pay attention ^(B)and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.^[a]

^47 (A)Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time ^(B)you were more corrupt than they in all your ways. ^48 (C)As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister ^(D)Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.

¹⁶ “But they and our fathers ^(A)acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments. ¹⁷ They refused to obey ^(B)and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt.^[a] But you are a God ready to forgive, ^(C)gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.

^8 (A)and walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, ^(B)and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced. ⁹ And the people of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, ^(C)from watchtower to fortified city. ¹⁰ They set up for themselves ^(D)pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, ¹¹ and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger, ¹² and they served idols, ^(E)of which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.” ¹³ Yet the Lord ^(F)warned Israel and Judah ^(G)by every prophet ^(H)and every seer, saying, ^(I)“Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”

¹⁴ But they would not listen, ^(J)but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. ¹⁵ They despised his statutes ^(K)and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after ^(L)false idols ^(M)and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the ^(N)Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them. ¹⁶ And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of ^(O)two calves; and they ^(P)made an Asherah and ^(Q)worshiped all the host of heaven and served ^(R)Baal. ^17 (S)And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings^[a] and used ^(T)divination and ^(U)omens and ^(V)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. ¹⁸ Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but ^(W)the tribe of Judah only.

^19 (X)Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced. ²⁰ And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them ^(Y)and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

⁴ For ^(A)certain people ^(B)have crept in unnoticed ^(C)who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert ^(D)the grace of our God into sensuality and ^(E)deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.