¹Hear this, O house of Jacob,
who are called by the name of Israel,
and who came forth from the loins of Judah;
who swear by the name of the LORD,
and invoke the God of Israel,
but not in truth or right.
²For they call themselves after the holy city,
and lean on the God of Israel;
the LORD of hosts is his name.
³The former things I declared long ago,
they went out from my mouth and I made them known;
then suddenly I did them and they came to pass.
⁴Because I know that you are obstinate,
and your neck is an iron sinew
and your forehead brass,
⁵I declared them to you from long ago,
before they came to pass I announced them to you,
so that you would not say, “My idol did them,
my carved image and my cast image commanded them.”