²⁹ For I know that after my death ^(A)you will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way that I have commanded you. And ^(B)in the days to come ^(C)evil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the Lord, ^(D)provoking him to anger through the work of your hands.”

¹⁷ Yet they did not listen to their judges, for ^(A)they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. ^(B)They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so.