3 Therefore tell them: Thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘Return to me,’ says the LORD of Hosts, ‘and I will return to you,’ says the LORD of Hosts.

4 Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says the LORD of Hosts, ‘Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;’ but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says the LORD.

5 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?