¹³ Now, because you have done all these things – this is the Lord’s declaration – and because I have spoken to you time and time again^[a] but you wouldn’t listen,^(A) and I have called to you, but you wouldn’t answer,^(B)

²⁴ Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention,^(A) but followed their own advice and their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backwards and not forwards.^(B)