⁴ Or do you despise ^(A)the riches of His goodness, ^(B)forbearance, and ^(C)longsuffering, ^(D)not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Israel Resists the Holy Spirit

⁵¹ “You ^(A)stiff-necked^[a] and ^(B)uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

The Fall of Jerusalem^(A)

^15 (B)And the Lord God of their fathers sent warnings to them by His messengers, rising up early and sending them, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place. ¹⁶ But ^(C)they mocked the messengers of God, ^(D)despised His words, and ^(E)scoffed at His prophets, until the ^(F)wrath of the Lord arose against His people, till there was no remedy.

¹³ Yet the Lord testified against Israel and against Judah, by all of His ^(A)prophets, ^(B)every seer, saying, ^(C)“Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.” ¹⁴ Nevertheless they would not hear, but ^(D)stiffened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who ^(E)did not believe in the Lord their God. ¹⁵ And they ^(F)rejected His statutes ^(G)and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He had testified against them; they followed ^(H)idols, ^(I)became idolaters, and went after the nations who were all around them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them that they should ^(J)not do like them. ¹⁶ So they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, ^(K)made for themselves a molded image and two calves, ^(L)made a wooden image and worshiped all the ^(M)host of heaven, ^(N)and served Baal. ^17 (O)And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, ^(P)practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and ^(Q)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. ¹⁸ Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from His sight; there was none left ^(R)but the tribe of Judah alone.

²¹ for ^(A)prophecy never came by the will of man, ^(B)but ^[a]holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

¹¹ searching what, or what manner of time, ^(A)the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.

¹³ Therefore it happened, that just as He proclaimed and they would not hear, so ^(A)they called out and I would not listen,” says the Lord of hosts.