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

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.

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.

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 had walked in the statutes of the nations whom the Lord had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

To this day they continue practicing the former rituals; they do not fear the Lord, nor do they follow their statutes or their ordinances, or the law and commandment which the Lord had commanded the children of Jacob, whom He named Israel,

Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Then may you also do good who are accustomed to do evil.

And there you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

for they served idols, of which the Lord had said to them,“ You shall not do this thing.”