And the Lord said to Samuel, Hear the voice of the people, in whatever they shall say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from reigning over them.

In the thirteenth year of Josiah, son of Amon, king of Judah, even until this day for twenty-three years, I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking,

and I sent to you My servants the prophets, sending them early; (but you would not listen, nor incline your ear to hear) saying,

Yet I sent to you My servants the prophets early in the morning; and I sent, saying, Do not do this abominable thing which I hate.

But they hearkened not to Me, and inclined not their ear to turn from their wickedness, so as not to burn incense to strange gods.

[As for] the word which you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to you.

He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me."

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen [gathers] her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We will not have this man to reign over us.'

But you are unwilling to come to Me, so that you may have life.

But I have known you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and do not seek the glory which is from the only God?

For if you believed Moses, you would have believed Me; for he wrote about Me.

Remember the word which I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse concerning their sin.

If I had not done the works among them which no one else has done, they would have no sin; but now they have both seen and they have hated both Me and My Father.

And you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord.

For her blood is in the midst of her; I have set it upon a smooth rock; I have not poured it out upon the earth, so that the earth should cover it;

Wherefore now their glory has been brought low, and the shame of their countenance has withstood them, and they have proclaimed their sin as Sodom, and made it manifest.

And you retained many shepherds for a stumbling block to yourself. You had a whore's face; you became shameless toward all.

O Lord, Your eyes are upon faithfulness. You have scourged them, but they have not grieved; You have consumed them; but they would not receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.