²⁴ “I called you so often, but you wouldn’t come.
    I reached out to you, but you paid no attention.

“All day long I opened my arms to them,
    but they were disobedient and rebellious.”^[a]

¹² now I will ‘destine’ you for the sword.
    All of you will bow down before the executioner.
For when I called, you did not answer.
    When I spoke, you did not listen.
You deliberately sinned—before my very eyes—
    and chose to do what you know I despise.”

⁴ I will send them great trouble—
    all the things they feared.
For when I called, they did not answer.
    When I spoke, they did not listen.
They deliberately sinned before my very eyes
    and chose to do what they know I despise.”