^7 (A)Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their fathers, so that ^(B)He made them a horror, as you see.

² The ^[a](A)descendants of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and ^(B)confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

⁴ “Do not be ^(A)like your fathers, to whom the ^(B)former prophets proclaimed, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “^(C)Return now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.”’ But they did ^(D)not listen or give heed to Me,” declares the Lord.