Jeremiah 7:22-24

Christian Standard Bible

²² for when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak with them^(A) or command them concerning burnt offering and sacrifice. ²³ However, I did give them this command: ‘Obey me, and then I will be your God, and you will be my people. Follow every way I command you so that it may go well with you.’^{(B) 24} Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention^(C) but followed their own advice and their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward.^(D)