25. “From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Mitsrayim until this day, I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.
26. “But they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did evil, more than their fathers.
27. “And you shall speak all these words to them, though they do not listen to you. And you shall also call to them, though they do not answer you.
28. “But you shall say to them, ‘This is a nation that did not obey the voice of יהוה their Elohim, nor did they accept instruction. Truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.
29. ‘Cut off your hair and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights, for יהוה has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’