He says: “Listen my people! I am speaking! Listen Israel! I am accusing you! I am God, your God!

I said, ‘Listen, my people! I will warn you! O Israel, if only you would obey me!

Then I will summon as my reliable witnesses Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.”

Gather to me all your tribal elders and officials so I can speak to them directly about these things and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them.

But I warned them and said, “Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you repeat this, I will forcibly remove you!” From that time on they did not show up on the Sabbath.

I answered, “Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? Their ears are so closed that they cannot hear! Indeed, what the Lord says is offensive to them. They do not like it at all.