Jeremiah 7:21-28

Thomson(i) 21 Thus saith the Lord, Collect your whole burnt offerings with your sacrifices and eat flesh. 22 Because I did not speak to your fathers nor give them a charge, on the day when I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, concerning the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices; 23 but only gave them this charge saying, "Hearken to my voice and I will be your God and you shall be my people; and walk in all my ways which I command you that it may be well with you." 24 But they hearkened not to me nor inclined their ear; but walked in the devices of their own wicked heart, and went backward and not forward 25 from the day their fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day: though I sent to you all my servants the prophets; daily and early though I sent them, 26 yet they hearkened not to me nor inclined their ears; nay they hardened their necks more than their fathers; 27 therefore thou shalt deliver them this message. 28 "This is the nation which hearkened not to the voice of the Lord, nor received instruction: faithfulness is gone from their mouth: