¹¹ But they refused to pay attention. They turned a stubborn shoulder and covered their ears so that they would not hear. ¹² They made their hearts like the hardest rock^[a] so that they would not hear the law and the words that the Lord of Armies sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. As a result, the fierce anger from the Lord of Armies was great.

¹³ When I called, they would not listen. So when they called, I would not listen, says the Lord of Armies. ¹⁴ I scattered them with a windstorm, among all the nations which they did not know. So the land was left desolate behind them. No one traveled back and forth through it. They made the pleasant land desolate.