¹⁴ Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts^(A) and followed after the Baals as their fathers taught them.”^(B)

¹¹ Then you will answer them: Because your fathers abandoned Me”^(A)—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and followed other gods, served them, and worshiped them.^(B) Indeed, they abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction. ¹² You did more evil than your fathers.^(C) Look, each one of you was following the stubbornness of his evil heart, not obeying Me.

¹⁸ “Then I said to their children in the wilderness: Don’t follow the statutes of your fathers, defile yourselves with their idols, or keep their ordinances.^(A)

²⁴ For they did not practice My ordinances but rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed^(A) on their fathers’ idols.

³⁰ “Therefore say to the house of Israel: This is what the Lord God says: Are you defiling yourselves the way your fathers did,^(A) and prostituting yourselves with their detestable things?