26 “However, they became disobedient+ and rebelled against you+ and kept casting your law behind their back,+ and your own prophets they killed,+ who bore witness against them to bring them back to you;+ and they went on committing acts of great disrespect.+
25 We lie down in our shame,+ and our humiliation keeps covering us;+ for it is toward Jehovah our God that we have sinned,+ we and our fathers from our youth on and down to this day,+ and we have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.”+
18 And I proceeded to say to their sons in the wilderness,+ ‘In the regulations of your forefathers do not YOU walk,+ and their judgments do not YOU keep,+ and with their dungy idols do not YOU defile yourselves.+