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23 But this command I gave them, “Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; walk only in the way that I command you, so that it may be well with you.”(A) 24 Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but, in the stubbornness of their evil will, they walked in their own counsels and looked backward rather than forward.(B) 25 From the day that your ancestors came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day,(C) 26 yet they did not listen to me or pay attention, but they stiffened their necks. They did worse than their ancestors did.(D)

27 So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall call to them, but they will not answer you.(E) 28 You shall say to them: This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the Lord their God and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.(F)

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23 but I gave them this command:(A) Obey(B) me, and I will be your God and you will be my people.(C) Walk in obedience to all(D) I command you, that it may go well(E) with you. 24 But they did not listen(F) or pay attention;(G) instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts.(H) They went backward(I) and not forward. 25 From the time your ancestors left Egypt until now, day after day, again and again(J) I sent you my servants(K) the prophets.(L) 26 But they did not listen to me or pay attention.(M) They were stiff-necked(N) and did more evil than their ancestors.’(O)

27 “When you tell(P) them all this, they will not listen(Q) to you; when you call to them, they will not answer.(R) 28 Therefore say to them, ‘This is the nation that has not obeyed the Lord its God or responded to correction.(S) Truth(T) has perished; it has vanished from their lips.

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