³⁴ Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or paid attention to your commandments and your warnings that you gave them.

¹⁹ because they did not pay attention to my words, declares the Lord, ^(A)that I persistently sent to you by my servants the prophets, but you would not listen, declares the Lord.’

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.”

²¹ And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song shall confront them as ^(A)a witness (for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their offspring). For ^(B)I know what they are inclined to do even today, before I have brought them into the land that I swore to give.”

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.

¹⁵ They despised his statutes ^(A)and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after ^(B)false idols ^(C)and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the ^(D)Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them.