But the people would not listen and continued to follow 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、○

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

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.

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.

They had followed the practices of the pagan nations the Lord had driven from the land ahead of them, as well as the practices the kings of Israel had introduced.

And this is still going on today. They continue to follow their former practices instead of truly worshiping the Lord and obeying the decrees, regulations, instructions, and commands he gave the descendants of Jacob, whose name he changed to Israel.

Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin? Can a leopard take away its spots? Neither can you start doing good, for you have always done evil.

There, in a foreign land, you will worship idols made from wood and stone— gods that neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

Yes, they worshiped idols, despite the Lord’s specific and repeated warnings.