⁹ The Lord told me, “Conspiracy has been found among the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem. ¹⁰ They have turned back to the iniquities of their ancestors of old^[a] who refused to listen to my words. They followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah broke my covenant which I made with their ancestors.”

¹¹ Therefore, this is what the Lord says: “I’m about to bring disaster on them from which they won’t be able to escape. They’ll cry out to me, but I won’t listen to them. ¹² The towns of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they’ll be no help at all to them^[b] in the time of their disaster. ¹³ Judah, you have as many gods as you have towns, and you have set up as many altars to the shameful idols as there are streets in Jerusalem. You burn incense to Baal on these altars.