3 Also take a few of these hairs and tie them in the folds of your clothes.
4 Take a few more and throw them into the fire and burn them up. From there a fire will spread to all the people of Israel.
5 “This is what the Lord says: This is Jerusalem. I have put her at the center of the nations with countries all around her.
6 But she has refused to obey my laws. She has been more evil than the nations. She has refused to obey my rules even more than those around her. The people of Jerusalem have rejected my laws and have not lived by my rules.
7 “So this is what the Lord God says: You caused more confusion than the nations around you. You did not follow my rules or obey my laws. You have not even obeyed the laws of the nations around you.
8 “So this is what the Lord God says: I myself am against you. I will punish you and the nations will watch.
9 I will do things among you that I have not done before. I will never do anything like them again. I will do them because you do the things I hate.