¹⁴ Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts^(A) and followed the Baals as their ancestors taught them.’^(B)

¹¹ Then you will answer them, “Because your ancestors abandoned me^(A) – this is the Lord’s declaration – and followed other gods, served them, and bowed in worship to them.^(B) Indeed, they abandoned me and did not keep my instruction. ¹² You did more evil than your ancestors.^(C) Look, each one of you was following the stubbornness of his evil heart, not obeying me.

¹⁸ ‘ “Then I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t follow the statutes of your fathers, defile yourselves with their idols, or keep their ordinances.^(A)

²⁴ For they did not practise my ordinances but rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed^(A) on their fathers’ idols.

³⁰ ‘Therefore say to the house of Israel, “This is what the Lord God says: Are you defiling yourselves the way your ancestors did,^(A) and prostituting yourselves with their abhorrent things?