²⁴ But they did not listen to me, nor did they pay attention. They walked in the stubbornness of their evil hearts and turned their backs, not their faces, to me.^{(A) 25} From the day that your ancestors left the land of Egypt even to this day, I kept on sending all my servants the prophets to you.^{(B) 26} Yet they have not listened to me nor have they paid attention; they have stiffened their necks and done worse than their ancestors.^(C)

¹⁰ and did not hear the voice of the Lord, our God, by walking in his laws given through his servants the prophets. ^11 (A)The curse and the oath written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, were poured out over us for our sins, because all Israel transgressed your law and turned aside, refusing to hear your voice. ¹² He fulfilled the words he spoke against us and against those who ruled us, by bringing upon us an evil—no evil so great has happened under heaven as happened in Jerusalem. ¹³ As it is written^[a] in the law of Moses, this evil has come upon us. We did not appease the Lord, our God, by turning back from our wickedness and acting according to your truth, ¹⁴ so the Lord kept watch over the evil and brought it upon us. The Lord, our God, is just in all that he has done: we did not listen to his voice.