Jeremiah 7:23-28

23However, I did give them this command: ‘Obey me, and then I will be your God, and you will be my people. Follow every way I command you so that it may go well with you.’

24Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention but followed their own advice and their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward.

25Since the day your ancestors came out of the land of Egypt until today, I have sent all my servants the prophets to you time and time again.

26However, my people 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.

28Therefore, declare to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the Lord their God and would not accept discipline. Truth has perished — it has disappeared from their mouths.