⁶ The Lord said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: ‘Obey the words of this covenant and carry them out.’ ⁷ For I strongly warned your ancestors when I brought them out of the land of Egypt until today, warning them time and time again,^[a](A) ‘Obey me.’ ⁸ Yet they would not obey or pay attention; each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart.^(B) So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant, because they had not done what I commanded them to do.”