¹³ Yet ^(A)Yahweh warned Israel and Judah ^(B)by the hand of all His prophets and ^(C)every seer, saying, “^(D)Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by the hand of My slaves the prophets.” ¹⁴ However, they did not listen, but ^(E)stiffened their neck ^[a]like their fathers, who did not believe in Yahweh their God. ^15 (F)They also rejected His statutes and ^(G)His covenant which He cut with their fathers and His warnings with which He warned them. And ^(H)they followed vanity and ^(I)became vain, and went after the nations which surrounded them, concerning which ^(J)Yahweh had commanded them not to do like them. ¹⁶ And they forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God and made for themselves molten images, even ^(K)two calves, and ^(L)made an ^[b]Asherah and ^(M)worshiped all the host of heaven and ^(N)served Baal. ¹⁷ Then ^(O)they made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, and ^(P)practiced divination and omens, and ^(Q)sold themselves to do what is evil in the sight of Yahweh, provoking Him to anger. ¹⁸ So Yahweh was very angry with Israel and ^(R)caused them to depart from His ^[c]presence; ^(S)none was left except the tribe of Judah alone.

The Chaldeans Destroy Jerusalem

¹⁵ And Yahweh, the God of their fathers, ^(A)sent word to them ^[a]again and again by the hand of His messengers, because He had compassion on His people and on His habitation; ¹⁶ but they continually ^(B)mocked the messengers of God, ^(C)despised His words and scoffed at His prophets, ^(D)until the wrath of Yahweh arose against His people, until there was no remedy.