They would not listen, however, but persisted in their former practices.

他们却不听从，仍照先前的风俗去行。

他们却不听从，仍照先前的风俗去行。

他们却不听从，仍照先前的风俗去行。

但是他们没有听从，依然仿效先前的风俗。

可是他们没有听从，仍然照着他们起初的习俗去行。

他們卻不聽從，仍照先前的風俗去行。

他們卻不聽從，仍照先前的風俗去行。

他們卻不聽從，仍照先前的風俗去行。

但是他們沒有聽從，依然仿效先前的風俗。

可是他們沒有聽從，仍然照著他們起初的習俗去行。

雖如此說，他們卻不聽從；反而仍照先前的規矩去行。

惟彼不聽、仍循往例、

遷於撒馬利亞之民仍不聽從、輒蹈前轍、

彼眾竟不聽從、仍循前之習俗而行、○

But the people wouldn’t listen. Instead, they were stubborn. They continued in their old practices.

However, they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.

But the people would not listen and continued to follow their former practices.

However, these nations would not listen but continued observing their former practices.

However, they did not listen, but they kept acting in accordance with their earlier custom.

However they did not obey, but they followed their former rituals.

Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

However, they would not listen but continued practicing their former customs.

Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

But they pay no attention; instead they observe their earlier practices.

However they didn’t listen, but they did what they did before.

and followed the practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before them, as well as the practices that the kings of Israel had introduced.

To this day they persist in their former practices. They neither worship the Lord nor adhere to the decrees and regulations, the laws and commands that the Lord gave the descendants of Jacob, whom he named Israel.

Can an Ethiopian change his skin or a leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.

There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

They worshiped idols, though the Lord had said,“ You shall not do this.”