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,

^24 (A)But they did not obey or incline their ear, ^(B)but walked in their own counsels and ^(C)the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and ^(D)went backward and not forward. ²⁵ From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, ^(E)I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day. ^26 (F)Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, ^(G)but stiffened their neck. ^(H)They did worse than their fathers.