And Jehovah said to Samuel, Consent to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, for Me to not reign over them.

From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even to this day, which is the twenty-third year, the Word of Jehovah has come unto me; and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking; but you have not listened.

And Jehovah has sent to you all His servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but you have not listened nor extended your ear to hear.

But I sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not do this abominable thing which I hate!

But they did not heed, nor extend their ear to turn from their evil, to burn no incense to other gods.

As for the Word that you have spoken to us in the name of Jehovah, we will not give heed 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, as 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 do not desire to have this man reign over us.

But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.

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

How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from God only?

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

Remember the Word that 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 for their sin.

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

For they are impudent and hardhearted children. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah.

For her blood is in her midst; she set it on top of a rock; she did not pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.

The expression of their faces witnesses against them; they have declared their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have recompensed evil upon themselves.

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a harlot's forehead; you refused to be ashamed.

O Jehovah, are not Your eyes on the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; You have destroyed them, but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to return.