4. You have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear, although the Lord persistently sent to you all his servants the prophets,
5. saying, ‘Turn now, every one of you, from his evil way and evil deeds, and dwell upon the land that the Lord has given to you and your fathers from of old and forever.
6. Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’
7. Yet you have not listened to me, declares the Lord, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.
8. “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words,
9. behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.