^4 (A)Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, ‘Oh, do not do this abomination that I hate!’

^5 (A)and to listen to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you ^(B)urgently, ^(C)though you have not listened,

²⁵ From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, ^(A)I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day.

¹³ And now, because you have done all these things, declares the Lord, and ^(A)when I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and ^(B)when I called you, you did not answer,

^7 (A)Were not these the words that the Lord proclaimed ^(B)by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, ^(C)with her cities around her, and the ^(D)South and the ^(E)lowland were inhabited?’”

¹⁰ So I went in and saw. And there, ^(A)engraved on the wall all around, was ^(B)every form of ^(C)creeping things and loathsome beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel.

¹⁹ because they did not pay attention to my words, declares the Lord, ^(A)that I persistently sent to you by my servants the prophets, but you would not listen, declares the Lord.’

¹⁸ But first ^(A)I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and ^(B)have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”

¹⁵ The Lord, the God of their fathers, ^(A)sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.

⁴ The woman ^(A)was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned ^(B)with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand ^(C)a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. ⁵ And on her forehead was written a name of ^(D)mystery: ^(E)“Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.”