⁹ “Thus says the Lord, ‘Just so will I destroy the ^(A)pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. ¹⁰ This wicked people, who ^(B)refuse to listen to My words, who ^(C)walk in the stubbornness of their hearts and have gone after other gods to serve them and to bow down to them, let them be just like this waistband which is totally worthless. ¹¹ For as the waistband clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole household of Israel and the whole household of Judah ^(D)cling to Me,’ declares the Lord, ‘that they might be for Me a people, for ^[a](E)renown, for ^(F)praise and for glory; but they ^(G)did not listen.’