because they did not listen to the voice of Jehovah their God, and transgressed His covenant, all that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded; yea, they did not listen and did not do them.
Woe to rebellious sons, a statement of Jehovah, to make counsel, but not from Me; and to weave a covering web, but not of My Spirit, in order to add sin on sin;
Who gave Jacob to the plunderer, and Israel to the robbers? Did not Jehovah, He against whom we have sinned? For they willed not to walk in His ways, and they did not obey His Law.
But they did not listen, and did not stretch out their ear. But they walked in their own plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.
But they rebelled against Me and would not listen to Me. They did not each man cast away the abominable idols of their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. And I said, I will pour out My fury against them, to complete My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
But God turned and gave them over to serve the host of the heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: “Did you not bring victims and sacrifices to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?