¹³ Nevertheless, the Lord had warned both Israel and Judah by means^[a] of every prophet and seer: “Turn away from your evil practices^[b] and keep my commandments and statutes according to the entire Law that I gave your ancestors and that I sent to you through my servants, the prophets.” ¹⁴ But they would not listen. Instead, they were stubborn,^[c] just like their ancestors had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. ¹⁵ They rejected the Lord’s^[d] statutes, the covenant that he had made with their ancestors, and his warnings that he gave them. They pursued meaninglessness—and became meaningless themselves—as they followed the lifestyles of the nations that surrounded them, a practice that the Lord had warned them not to do.