¹² And you have done ^(A)worse than your fathers, for behold, ^(B)each one ^[a]follows the dictates of his own evil heart, so that no one listens to Me.

^29 (A)In those days they shall say no more:

² “What do you mean when you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying:

Mercy on Ephraim

¹⁵ Thus says the Lord:

³⁶ And Jacob their father said to them, “You have ^(A)bereaved me: Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take ^(B)Benjamin. All these things are against me.”

^32 (A)Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ guilt. ³³ Serpents, ^(B)brood^[a] of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell? ^34 (C)Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: ^(D)some of them you will kill and crucify, and ^(E)some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, ^35 (F)that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, ^(G)from the blood of righteous Abel to ^(H)the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.