49. In addition, the leaders of the people and even the chief priests did more lawless and godless things than all the corrupt heathen; they defiled the Temple of the Lord, which he had made holy.
50. The God of their ancestors had continued to send prophets to call them back from their sins, because he wanted to spare them and their Temple.
51. But when the Lord spoke through his prophets, the people ridiculed them and laughed.