⁷ And do not be ^(A)like your fathers and your brethren, who trespassed against the Lord God of their fathers, so that He ^(B)gave them up to ^(C)desolation, as you see.

⁸ Therefore the ^(A)wrath of the Lord fell upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has ^(B)given them up to trouble, to desolation, and to ^(C)jeering, as you see with your ^(D)eyes.

³ Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Return ^(A)to Me,” says the Lord of hosts, “and I will return to you,” says the Lord of hosts. ⁴ “Do not be like your fathers, ^(B)to whom the former prophets preached, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: ^(C)“Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.” ’ But they did not hear nor heed Me,” says the Lord.

¹³ Yet the house of Israel ^(A)rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they ^(B)despised My judgments, ^(C)‘which, if a man does, he shall live by them’; and they greatly ^(D)defiled My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them in the ^(E)wilderness, to consume them. ^14 (F)But I acted for My name’s sake, that it should not be profaned before the Gentiles, in whose sight I had brought them out. ¹⁵ So ^(G)I also raised My hand in an oath to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, ^(H)‘flowing with milk and honey,’ ^(I)the glory of all lands, ^16 (J)because they despised My judgments and did not walk in My statutes, but profaned My Sabbaths; for ^(K)their heart went after their idols. ^17 (L)Nevertheless My eye spared them from destruction. I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

¹⁸ “But I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.