23 But I did give them this command: “Obey my voice, and I will become your God, and you will become my people.+ You must walk in all the way that I command, so that it may go well with you.”’+ 24 But they did not listen or incline their ear;+ instead, they walked in their own schemes,* stubbornly following their wicked heart,+ and they went backward, not forward,

7 For I solemnly admonished your forefathers in the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt and to this day, admonishing them again and again:* “Obey my voice.”+ 8 But they did not listen or incline their ear; instead, each kept stubbornly following his own wicked heart.+ So I brought on them all the words of this covenant that I commanded them to do, but they refused to carry them out.’”