Jeremiah 44:2-4

New Catholic Bible

² Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen the immense disaster that I have inflicted on Jerusalem and all the towns of Judah. Today they lie in ruins and are left uninhabited. ³ This was the result of all the wicked deeds your ancestors committed that provoked me to anger, as they went forth to serve other gods and offer sacrifices to them whom neither they, nor you, nor your ancestors ever had known before.

⁴ Even though I continued to send to them all my servants the prophets with this plea, “Do not do this abominable thing that I hate,”