"It did no good for me to punish your people. They did not respond to such correction. You slaughtered your prophets like a voracious lion."

You also have done all these things, says the Lord, and I have spoken to you over and over again. But you have not listened! You have refused to respond when I called you to repent!

Then the Lord said to me, "When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you. When you call out to them, they will not respond to you.

Your ancestors, however, did not listen to me or pay any attention to me. They stubbornly refused to pay attention or to respond to any discipline.'

They have turned away from me instead of turning to me. I tried over and over again to instruct them, but they did not listen and respond to correction.