¹² But you have behaved more wickedly than your ancestors.^(A) See how all of you are following the stubbornness of your evil hearts^(B) instead of obeying me.

²⁹ “In those days people will no longer say,

² “What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel:

¹⁵ This is what the Lord says:

³⁶ Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my children. Joseph is no more and Simeon is no more,^(A) and now you want to take Benjamin.^(B) Everything is against me!^(C)”

³² Go ahead, then, and complete^(A) what your ancestors started!^(B)

³³ “You snakes! You brood of vipers!^(C) How will you escape being condemned to hell?^{(D) 34} Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify;^(E) others you will flog in your synagogues^(F) and pursue from town to town.^{(G) 35} And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel^(H) to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah,^(I) whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.^{(J) 36} Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation.^(K)