But I said to their sons in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers and do not keep their judgments, and do not defile yourselves with their idols.
They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear My Word. And they went after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I cut with their fathers.
And I brought you into a garden land to eat its fruit and its goodness. But when you went in, you defiled My land and made My inheritance a disgusting thing.
And they came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice nor did they walk in Your Law. They have not done all that You commanded them to do, so You have caused all this evil to meet them.
Yet you say, Why? Does not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done judgment and righteousness, he has kept all My statutes and has done them, living he shall live.
And He said to me, Son of man, I am sending you to the sons of Israel, to the nations, the ones rebelling who have rebelled against Me. They and their fathers have transgressed against Me to this day.
And I said to them, Let each man cast away the abominable idols of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.
So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn back from it; for they rejected the Law of Jehovah, and they have not kept His statutes. And their lies after which their fathers walked led them astray.