26:4 Tell them that the Lord says, 1 ‘You must obey me! You must live according to the way I have instructed you in my laws. 2 26:5 You must pay attention to the exhortations of my servants the prophets. I have sent them to you over and over again. 3 But you have not paid any attention to them.
1 tnHeb “thus says the Lord, ‘…’.” The use of the indirect quotation in the translation eliminates one level of embedded quotation to avoid confusion.
2 tnHeb “by walking in my law which I set before you.”
3 tn See the translator’s note on 7:13 for the idiom here.