Instead, they have done what their stubborn hearts wanted them to do. They have worshiped the gods that are named Baal. They have done what their people have taught them to do through the years.”

只随从自己顽梗的心行事，照他们列祖所教训的随从众巴力。”

反随从自己顽梗的心行事，照他们祖先所教训的随从诸巴力。”

反随从自己顽梗的心行事，照他们祖先所教训的随从诸巴力。”

执迷不悟，随从他们祖先的教导去供奉巴力。”

反而随从自己顽梗的心行事，照他们列祖所教训的，随从众巴力。”

只隨從自己頑梗的心行事，照他們列祖所教訓的隨從眾巴力。」

反隨從自己頑梗的心行事，照他們祖先所教訓的隨從諸巴力。」

反隨從自己頑梗的心行事，照他們祖先所教訓的隨從諸巴力。」

執迷不悟，隨從他們祖先的教導去供奉巴力。」

反而隨從自己頑梗的心行事，照他們列祖所教訓的，隨從眾巴力。”

只隨從自己心意之頑強，隨從眾巴力，就是他們列祖所教導他們行的。

惟徇己心之剛愎、從諸巴力、即其祖所教者、

乃縱私欲崇事巴力、效祖之尤。

放縱私欲、傚法其祖、崇拜巴力、

Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts; they have followed the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.”

but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

Instead, they have stubbornly followed their own desires and worshiped the images of Baal, as their ancestors taught them.

Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and followed the Baals as their ancestors taught them.”

but have followed the stubbornness of their heart and the Baals, as their fathers taught them,”

but they have walked according to the dictates of their own hearts and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them,”

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them;

Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and followed after the Baals as their fathers taught them.”

But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

Instead they have followed the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts. They have paid allegiance to the gods called Baal, as their fathers taught them to do.

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”

But they did not listen. They refused to pay any attention to me. Instead, they did what their stubborn and evil hearts wanted them to do. They went backward and not forward.

At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the Lord. All the nations will gather together there. They will go there to honor me. They will no longer do what their stubborn and evil hearts want them to do.

I was moving ahead in my Jewish way of life. I went beyond many of my people who were my own age. I held firmly to the teachings passed down by my people.

They knew God. But they didn’t honor him as God. They didn’t thank him. Their thinking became worthless. Their foolish hearts became dark.They claimed to be wise. But they made fools of themselves.They would rather have statues of gods than the glorious God who lives forever. Their statues of gods are made to look like people, birds, animals and reptiles.So God let them go. He allowed them to do what their sinful hearts wanted to. He let them commit sexual sins. They made one another’s bodies impure by what they did.

You were set free from an empty way of life. This way of life was handed down to you by your own people of long ago. You know that you were not bought with things that can pass away, like silver or gold.

“ Do not be like your people of long ago. The earlier prophets gave them my message. I said,‘ Stop doing what is evil. Turn away from your sinful practices.’ But they would not listen to me. They would not pay any attention,” announces the Lord.“ Where are those people now? And what about my prophets? Do they live forever?

Here is what I’m telling you. I am speaking for the Lord as I warn you. You must no longer live as the Gentiles do. Their thoughts don’t have any purpose.They can’t understand the truth. They are separated from the life of God. That’s because they don’t know him. And they don’t know him because their hearts are stubborn.They have lost all feeling for what is right. So they have given themselves over to all kinds of evil pleasures. They take part in every kind of unclean act. And they are full of greed.

The priests did not ask,‘ Where is the Lord?’ Those who taught my law did not know me. The leaders refused to obey me. The prophets prophesied in the name of Baal. They worshiped worthless statues of gods.

“ You say,‘ I am“ clean.” I haven’t followed the gods that are named Baal.’ How can you say that? Remember how you acted in the valley. Consider what you have done. You are like a female camel running quickly here and there.

At one time we all lived among them. Our desires were controlled by sin. We tried to satisfy what they wanted us to do. We followed our desires and thoughts. God was angry with us like he was with everyone else. That’s because of the kind of people we all were.

The Lord saw how bad the sins of everyone on earth had become. They only thought about evil things.

We will certainly do everything we said we would. We’ll burn incense to the female god called the Queen of Heaven. We’ll pour out drink offerings to her. We’ll do just as we and our people of long ago have done. Our kings and our officials also did it. All of us did it in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food. We were well off. We didn’t suffer any harm.