^18 (A)Did not your fathers act in this way, and did not our God bring all this disaster^[a] on us and on this city? Now you are bringing more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”

²¹ Thus says the Lord: Take care for the sake of your lives, and ^(A)do not bear a burden on the Sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem. ²² And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath ^(B)or do any work, but ^(C)keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers. ²³ Yet ^(D)they did not listen or incline their ear, ^(E)but stiffened their neck, that they ^(F)might not hear and receive instruction.

^4 (A)Do not be like your fathers, ^(B)to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, ^(C)Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But ^(D)they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord. ⁵ Your fathers, where are they? And ^(E)the prophets, do they live forever? ^6 (F)But my words and my statutes, which I commanded ^(G)my servants the prophets, did they not ^(H)overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, ^(I)‘As the Lord of hosts purposed to deal with us for ^(J)our ways and ^(K)deeds, so has he dealt with us.’”

^26 (A)They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels.

⁸ She did not give up her whoring ^(A)that she had begun in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their whoring lust upon her.