⁷ From the time I brought your ancestors up from Egypt until today, I warned them again and again,^(A) saying, “Obey me.” ⁸ But they did not listen or pay attention;^(B) instead, they followed the stubbornness of their evil hearts.^(C) So I brought on them all the curses^(D) of the covenant I had commanded them to follow but that they did not keep.^(E)’”