²⁴ Yet they ^(A)did not obey or incline their ear, but walked by their own advice and in the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and they ^[a](B)went backward and not forward.

¹⁴ but have ^(A)followed the stubbornness of their heart and the ^(B)Baals, ^[a]as their ^(C)fathers taught them,”

¹⁵ Also I have sent to you all My ^(A)servants the prophets, sending them again and again, saying: ‘^(B)Turn now every person from his evil way and amend your deeds, and ^(C)do not follow other gods to worship them. Then you will ^(D)live in the land which I have given to you and to your forefathers; but you have not ^(E)inclined your ear or listened to Me.

⁸ But they ^(A)rebelled against Me and were not willing to listen to Me; they did not throw away, each of them, the detestable things of their eyes, nor did they abandon the ^(B)idols of Egypt.

“Then I ^[a]resolved to ^(C)pour out My wrath on them, to ^[b]use up My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.