⁶ The Lord told me, “Proclaim all these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. You are to say, ‘Listen to the words of this covenant and do them. ⁷ For I’ve diligently warned your ancestors from the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt until now, regularly warning them,^[a] saying, “Obey me!” ⁸ But they would not listen or turn their ear, and each of them stubbornly followed his own evil desires.^[b] So I brought on them all the consequences^[c] of this covenant that I commanded them to fulfill, but they did not.’”