³⁰ Many years ^(A)you bore with them ^(B)and warned them ^(C)by your Spirit through your prophets. ^(D)Yet they would not give ear. ^(E)Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

⁴ Or do you presume on ^(A)the riches of his kindness and ^(B)forbearance and ^(C)patience, ^(D)not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

^51 (A)“You stiff-necked people, ^(B)uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. ^(C)As your fathers did, so do you.

¹⁵ The Lord, the God of their fathers, ^(A)sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. ^16 (B)But they kept mocking the messengers of God, ^(C)despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, ^(D)until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.

¹³ Yet the Lord ^(A)warned Israel and Judah ^(B)by every prophet ^(C)and every seer, saying, ^(D)“Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”

¹⁴ But they would not listen, ^(E)but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. ¹⁵ They despised his statutes ^(F)and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after ^(G)false idols ^(H)and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the ^(I)Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them. ¹⁶ And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of ^(J)two calves; and they ^(K)made an Asherah and ^(L)worshiped all the host of heaven and served ^(M)Baal. ^17 (N)And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings^[a] and used ^(O)divination and ^(P)omens and ^(Q)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. ¹⁸ Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but ^(R)the tribe of Judah only.

²¹ For ^(A)no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God ^(B)as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

¹¹ inquiring ^(A)what person or time^{[a] (B)}the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating ^(C)when he predicted ^(D)the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories.

^13 (A)“As I^[a] called, and they would not hear, ^(B)so they called, and I would not hear,” says the Lord of hosts,