Jeremiah 11:7-9

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁷ For I solemnly warned your fathers when I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, warning them persistently, even to this day, saying, Obey my voice. ⁸ Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but every one walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not.”

⁹ Again the Lord said to me, “There is revolt among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.