⁴ I sent my servants, the prophets, to protest over and over again and to plead with them not to do this horrible thing I hate, ⁵ but they wouldn’t listen and wouldn’t turn back from their wicked ways; they have kept right on with their sacrifices to these “gods.” ⁶ And so my fury and anger boiled over and fell as fire upon the cities of Judah and into the streets of Jerusalem, and there is desolation until this day.