⁶ She has rebelled against My judgments by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against My statutes more than the countries that are all around her; for they have refused My judgments, and they have not walked in My statutes.’

¹⁰ They have turned back to ^(A)the iniquities of their forefathers who refused to hear My words, and they have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers.”

¹¹ “But they refused to heed, ^(A)shrugged^[a] their shoulders, and ^(B)stopped^[b] their ears so that they could not hear.

⁴⁷ You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, ^(A)you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.

⁴⁸ “As I live,” says the Lord God, “neither ^(B)your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done.

⁸ and ^(A)had walked in the statutes of the nations whom the Lord had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. ⁹ Also the children of Israel secretly did against the Lord their God things that were not right, and they built for themselves ^[a]high places in all their cities, ^(B)from watchtower to fortified city. ^10 (C)They set up for themselves sacred pillars and ^(D)wooden images^{[b] (E)}on every high hill and under every green tree. ¹¹ There they burned incense on all the high places, like the nations whom the Lord had carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger, ¹² for they served idols, ^(F)of which the Lord had said to them, ^(G)“You shall not do this thing.”

¹³ Yet the Lord testified against Israel and against Judah, by all of His ^(H)prophets, ^(I)every seer, saying, ^(J)“Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.” ¹⁴ Nevertheless they would not hear, but ^(K)stiffened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who ^(L)did not believe in the Lord their God. ¹⁵ And they ^(M)rejected His statutes ^(N)and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He had testified against them; they followed ^(O)idols, ^(P)became idolaters, and went after the nations who were all around them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them that they should ^(Q)not do like them. ¹⁶ So they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, ^(R)made for themselves a molded image and two calves, ^(S)made a wooden image and worshiped all the ^(T)host of heaven, ^(U)and served Baal. ^17 (V)And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, ^(W)practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and ^(X)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. ¹⁸ Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from His sight; there was none left ^(Y)but the tribe of Judah alone.

¹⁹ Also ^(Z)Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. ²⁰ And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and ^(AA)delivered them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them from His ^(AB)sight.

⁴ For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord ^[a]God and our Lord Jesus Christ.