'Following' in the Bible

"I said, "How I wanted to treat you like children, and give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful inheritance of the nations.' I said, "You will call me, my father, and won't turn back from following me.'

But they didn't listen, nor did they pay attention. They pursued their own plans, stubbornly following their own evil desires. They went backward and not forward.

You have done even more evil than your ancestors, and each one of you is stubbornly following his own evil desires, refusing to listen to me.