⁶ Yet in her wickedness she has rebelled against my laws and decrees more than the nations and countries around her. She has rejected my laws and has not followed my decrees.^(A)

¹⁰ They have returned to the sins of their ancestors,^(A) who refused to listen to my words.^(B) They have followed other gods^(C) to serve them.^(D) Both Israel and Judah have broken the covenant^(E) I made with their ancestors.

¹¹ “But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly^(A) they turned their backs^(B) and covered their ears.^(C)

⁴⁷ You not only followed their ways and copied their detestable practices, but in all your ways you soon became more depraved than they.^{(A) 48} As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign^(B) Lord, your sister Sodom^(C) and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done.^(D)

⁸ and followed the practices of the nations^(A) the Lord had driven out before them, as well as the practices that the kings of Israel had introduced. ⁹ The Israelites secretly did things against the Lord their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city^(B) they built themselves high places in all their towns. ¹⁰ They set up sacred stones^(C) and Asherah poles^(D) on every high hill and under every spreading tree.^{(E) 11} At every high place they burned incense, as the nations whom the Lord had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that aroused the Lord’s anger. ¹² They worshiped idols,^(F) though the Lord had said, “You shall not do this.”^{[a] 13} The Lord warned^(G) Israel and Judah through all his prophets and seers:^(H) “Turn from your evil ways.^(I) Observe my commands and decrees, in accordance with the entire Law that I commanded your ancestors to obey and that I delivered to you through my servants the prophets.”^(J)

¹⁴ But they would not listen and were as stiff-necked^(K) as their ancestors, who did not trust in the Lord their God. ¹⁵ They rejected his decrees and the covenant^(L) he had made with their ancestors and the statutes he had warned them to keep. They followed worthless idols^(M) and themselves became worthless.^(N) They imitated the nations^(O) around them although the Lord had ordered them, “Do not do as they do.”

¹⁶ They forsook all the commands of the Lord their God and made for themselves two idols cast in the shape of calves,^(P) and an Asherah^(Q) pole. They bowed down to all the starry hosts,^(R) and they worshiped Baal.^{(S) 17} They sacrificed^(T) their sons and daughters in the fire. They practiced divination and sought omens^(U) and sold^(V) themselves to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, arousing his anger.

¹⁸ So the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them from his presence.^(W) Only the tribe of Judah was left, ¹⁹ and even Judah did not keep the commands of the Lord their God. They followed the practices Israel had introduced.^{(X) 20} Therefore the Lord rejected all the people of Israel; he afflicted them and gave them into the hands of plunderers,^(Y) until he thrust them from his presence.^(Z)

⁴ For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about^[a] long ago have secretly slipped in among you.^(A) They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.^(B)