21. This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves,
22. for when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak with them or command them concerning burnt offering and sacrifice.
23. However, I did give them this command: Obey Me, and then I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must follow every way I command you so that it may go well with you.
24. Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention but followed their own advice and according to their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward.
25. Since the day your ancestors came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent all My servants the prophets to you time and time again.
26. However, they wouldn’t listen to Me or pay attention but became obstinate; they did more evil than their ancestors.
27. “When you speak all these things to them, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer you.