7 ‘For I solemnly awarned your fathers in the bday that I brought them up from the land of Egypt, even to this day, 1cwarning persistently, saying, “dListen to My voice.”

8 ‘Yet they adid not obey or incline their ear, but walked, each one, in the stubbornness of his evil heart; therefore I brought on them all the bwords of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not.’ ”

9 Then the Lord said to me, “A aconspiracy has been found among the men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

10 “They have aturned back to the iniquities of their 1ancestors who brefused to hear My words, and they chave gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dbroken My covenant which I made with their fathers.”

11 Therefore thus says the Lord, “Behold I am abringing disaster on them which they will bnot be able to escape; though they will ccry to Me, yet I will not listen to them.

12 “Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will ago and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they surely will not save them in the time of their disaster.

13 “For your gods are 1aas many as your cities, O Judah; and 1as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the bshameful thing, altars to cburn incense to Baal.

14 “Therefore ado not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them; for I will bnot listen when they call to Me because of their disaster.

15 “What right has My abeloved in My house

When bshe has done many vile deeds?

Can the sacrificial flesh take away from you your disaster,

1So that you can rejoice?”

16 The Lord called your name,

“A agreen olive tree, beautiful in fruit and form”;

With the bnoise of a great tumult

He has ckindled fire on it,

And its branches are worthless.

17 The Lord of hosts, who aplanted you, has bpronounced evil against you because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have 1done to provoke Me by 2coffering up sacrifices to Baal.