26. However, they wouldn’t listen to Me or pay attention but became obstinate; they did more evil than their ancestors.
27. “When you speak all these things to them, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer you.
28. You must therefore declare to them: This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the Lord their God and would not accept discipline. Truth has perished — it has disappeared from their mouths.
29. Cut off the hair of your sacred vow and throw it away. Raise up a dirge on the barren heights, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned the generation under His wrath.
30. “For the Judeans have done what is evil in My sight.” This is the Lord’s declaration. “They have set up their detestable things in the house that is called by My name and defiled it.