Instead they have followed the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts. They have paid allegiance to<n id="1" /> the gods called Baal,<n id="2" /> as their fathers<n id="3" /> taught them to do.

They have gone back to the evil ways<n id="1" /> of their ancestors of old who refused to obey what I told them. They, too, have paid allegiance to<n id="2" /> other gods and worshiped them. Both the nation of Israel and the nation of Judah<n id="3" /> have violated the covenant I made with their ancestors.

How long will they go on plotting<n id="1" /> to make my people forget who I am<n id="2" /> through the dreams they tell one another? That is just as bad as what their ancestors<n id="3" /> did when they forgot who I am by worshiping the god Baal.<n id="4" />

For I, the <sc>Lordsc>, tell you what will happen to<n id="1" /> the children who are born here in this land and to the men and women who are their mothers and fathers.<n id="2" />

It will not be like the old<n id="1" /> covenant that I made with their ancestors<n id="2" /> when I delivered them<n id="3" /> from Egypt. For they violated that covenant, even though I was like a faithful husband to them,&#8221;<n id="4" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="5" />